Gender, Health, and Popular Culture: Historical Perspectives
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Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures. Customarily it is associated with strength in men and beauty in women. This gendered concept was transmitted through visual representations of the ideal female and male bodies, and ubiquitous media images resulted in the absorption of universal standards of beauty and health and generalized desires to achieve them. Today, genuine or self-styled experts-from physicians to newspaper columnists to advertisers-offer advice on achieving optimal ...























