Who's that Girl: Television's Role in the Body Image Development of Young White and Black Women

By D. Schooler, L. Monique Ward, Ann M. Merriwether, Allison S Caruthers. 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, Literature and Literary Theory

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Erratum to: Beyond Thinness: The Influence of a Curvaceous Body Ideal on Body Dissatisfaction in Black and White Women (2010, background): “When differences in body image perceptions between Black and White women are considered, studies have found that White women are adversely impacted by mainstream thin body ideals (Grabe et al. 2008; Schooler et al. 2004 ) but Black women appear to be “protected” from sociocultural pressures of thin”
Media Contributions to African American Girls' Focus on Beauty and Appearance: Exploring the Consequences of Sexual Objectification (2008, background): “For example, Schooler et al. (2004) found evidence that viewing television programs featuring predominantly Black casts is related to healthier body image for African American college women.”
Intersectionality and research in psychology. (2009, methodology): “This was illustrated by Spelman’s (1988) critique of Chodorow’s claims about the universal characteristics of mothering.”
The role of the media in body image concerns among women: a meta-analysis of experimental and correlational studies. (2008, background): “The limited number of studies in this review that did examine the role of ethnicity suggested that it does affect women’s level of body dissatisfaction in the face of mainstream media (e.g., Schooler et al., 2004).”
Influence of Mass Media on Body Image and Eating Disordered Attitudes and Behaviors in Females: A Review of Effects and Processes (2010, background): “, 2005), it also appears to be the case that the beauty ideal presented in programs targeted at Black audiences and promoted in the Black community include a broader range of body sizes than those targeted at the general population (Schooler et al., 2004; Tirodkar & Jain, 2003).”
Ethnicity and body dissatisfaction among women in the United States: a meta-analysis. (2006, unknown): “Therefore, scales that measured specific domains of appearance (e.g., appearance orientation, internalization) were eliminated because they were inconsistent with the definition (e.g., the Sociocultural Attitudes Toward Appearance Scale; Heinberg, Thompson, & Stormer, 1995).2”
The Politics of Protection: Body Image, Social Pressures, and the Misrepresentation of Young Black Women (2006, background): “Black woman on television may “affirm the beauty of all” and encourage young Black women to perceive other Black women as “allies, not as competitors”; thus watching television shows with predominantly Black casts has a “protective effect” on young Black women’s body image ( Schooler, Ward, Merriwet”
Real Women Have Curves (2008, unknown): “Previous research has documented a parallel finding among African American women (Schooler et al., 2004), and these findings support the notion that media use is an important agent of acculturation.”