Publications

Publication details [#38944]

Guendouzi, Jackie. 2004. She’s very slim’: talking about body-size in all-female interactions. Journal of Pragmatics 36 (9) : 1635–1653.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bodily posture | discourse analysis | feminism | teenager | women's language

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This article investigates whether groups of British teenage girls and professional women discursively orient to, or reject the socially sanctioned ideal of the ‘thin woman’ .