Book review: The becoming of bodies: girls, images, experience by Rebecca Coleman

Shephard, Nicole (2013) Book review: The becoming of bodies: girls, images, experience by Rebecca Coleman. LSE Review of Books (31 Jan 2013). Website.

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The relationship between bodies and images has long occupied feminism, and this book offers an alternative framework for analysis. Thinking through her original empirical research with teenage girls, involving focus groups, individual interviews and image-making sessions, Rebecca Coleman moves from a consideration of media images – the focus of much feminist research – to examine images more widely; as mirrors, photographs, glimpses, comments, imagination. Nicole Shephard finds that the book is also of methodological interest in terms of bridging a perceived divide between theory and empirical work in cultural studies.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information:	© 2013 LSE Review of Books
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Date Deposited:	18 Sep 2013 13:29
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 18:50
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/52723

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