The Adonis Complex: The Secret Crisis of Male Body Obsession
By H. Pope, K. Phillips, Roberto Olivardia. 2000
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Subfields: Gender Studies
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- Social Comparison And Body Image: An Investigation Of Body Comparison Processes Using Multidimensional Scaling (2002, background): “…dimensional groupings were for the muscle-related body sites, the findings indicate a similar basic cognitive explanation for the recent findings that boys and men are more invested in muscularity than thinness (Andersen et al., 2000; McCreary & Sasse, 2000; Pope et al., 2000; Smolak et al., 2001).”
- Idealized images of the male body in advertising: a reader‐response exploration (2005, background): “Pope et al. (2000) undertook a study of male body obsession and found that advertisements for everything from cars to underwear were using body-builder images with ‘washboard abdominal muscles, massive chests, and inflated shoulders […], a combination of muscularity and leanness probably achievable…”
- The enigma of male eating disorders: A critical review and synthesis. (2017, background): “More broadly, a high degree of diagnostic crossover between MD and ED presentations (Murray et al, in press; Pope et al., 2000) suggests that MD and EDs may be related phenotypes.”
- “Bad Girls Rule”: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Commentary on the Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls (2009, background): “In his 1964 version, he would be 5’ 10’’, with a 44-in. chest, 32-in. waist, and 12-in. biceps; by 1991, he would have a 29-in. waist with 1612-in. biceps; by the mid 1990s, he would sport a 55-in. chest and 27-in. biceps, almost as big as his 29-in. waist (see Pope et al., 1999; Pope et al., 2000).”
- The Costs of Consumer Culture and the “Cage Within”: The Impact of the Material “Good Life” and “Body Perfect” Ideals on Individuals” Identity and Well-Being (2007, background): “…and Thompson, 2005, p. 868), now characterized in mass consumer societies by an obsession with “to have is to be” (Fromm, 1978; Kasser and Kanner, 2004), and a cult of perfect beauty, however exacting (Thompson, Heinberg, Altabe, and Tantleff-Dunn, 1999; Pope, Phillips, and Olivardia, 2000).”