Body Modification, Self-Mutilation and Agency in Media Accounts of a Subculture.

Autor: Pitts, Victoria L.
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Zdroj: Body & Society; Sep99, Vol. 5 Issue 2/3, p291, 13p
Abstrakt: Focuses on the media's framing of non-mainstream body modification as a social problem. Role of a mutilation discourse as a dominant frame of meaning used to make sense of body modifiers in the mainstream media; Framing's effect of the pathologization of body modifiers; Accounts that problematize body modification through the dominant discourse of the mental-health model.
Databáze: Complementary Index