原文: Body Image 2

The fashion magazines effect on the female body image.

Shaping Female Body Image

Social Issues Research Center, Barnard/Columbia Women's Handbook and Jennifer Warner's Women's Body Issues Research studies how the standards of female beauty have become considerably high and inflexible over the past decade. Social Issues Research Center correspondent, Kate Fox, explains that this standard of beauty has been derived from the images of the “ideal” face and figure women come across in fashion magazines. This article claims that young women now see more images of perfect, beautiful women in one day than what their mothers witnessed throughout their entire adolescence.

This information is similar to the other two articles, as they all generate the same idea that fashion magazines have negative effects on women's body image. Both the Social Issues Research Center and Barnard/Columbia Women's Handbook, for example, states that today's model weighs 23% below the national average, compare to 25 years ago, where the average model weighed 8% less than the average American woman. Jennifer Warner also made comparisons on earlier and current studies regarding female body issues. She declares that previous studies have shown that images of skinny models negatively affect how overweight women and those with eating disorders view their own bodies.

However, she also states that a new study has been proven that all women are equally and negatively affected by looking at models in fashion magazines. The valid points that are mentioned in Jennifer Warner's article are therefore related to the information cited on the last two articles, proving that fashion magazines definitely affects body image of the female population.

Comparing Information, Facts, and Statistics

Although the general information presented in these articles is similar, there are also differences between the three. Social Issues Research Centre, for example, has statistical information on female body image from different countries like Sweden, Japan and America. In America alone, 81% of ten-year-old girls had already dieted at least once. Sweden, on the other hand has 25% of 7-year-old girls dieting to lose weight. Lastly, in Japan, 41% of elementary school girls thought that they were too fat. The validity of this article is more significant compare to the other two, where statistics and facts are very limited.

In addition, Jennifer Warner's article also differs to the other articles, where a published study was made, examining a group of young college women and their feelings after looking at images of models in magazines for up to 3 minutes. This study is a very resourceful primary research compares to the others because it proves first-hand that all women who have viewed the models in magazines dropped in their level of satisfaction with their own bodies.

Women and Fashion Magazines Go Hand in Hand

Overall, the information given in these three different articles concludes that women and fashion magazines do relate with one another. The message that magazines send out to females around the world affects them negatively, causing a drop in self-esteem and self-worth. Today, women suffer many types of unhealthy habits, from obsessive exercises, binge eating, starvation, and even sometimes, extreme behaviors leading to anorexia or bulimia.
 

译文: 时尚杂志对于女性的肢体形象起着作用

女性肢体形象的形成

社会问题研究中心，Barnard/哥伦比亚女性手册和詹尼弗·沃娜的女性身体问题研究表明女性美丽的标准是如何已经变得相当高，并且也不可置否地超过了过去的十年。社会问题研究中心的特派员，凯特·弗克斯，解释说这种美丽的标准已经衍生出“想象上的”脸部的形象，而这种外形妇女来自时尚杂志。这篇文章声称现在的年轻女性更多地看中完美的形象，某天漂亮的女性会比她们的母亲所看到的还要漂亮，而这会贯穿她们整个青春期。

这个信息与其它两篇文章很相似，正如它们都产生了相同的想法，就是时尚杂志对女性身体形象起着负面的效果。社会问题研究中心和Barnard/哥伦比亚女性手册，例如，声明现在的模特的体重比国内平均体重要轻23%，与25年前的情况相比，那时模特的平均体重只比美国女性的平均体重轻8%。詹尼弗·沃娜也很注重女性的身体问题，把早期的数据和现在的数据做了对比。她声明先前的研究已经表明极瘦的模特的形象消极地影响着超重女性和那些饮食紊乱的人们是如何看待她们自己的身体的。

然而，她也声明在一篇新的研究论文中已经证实所有的女性都受着她们在时尚杂志上看到的那些模特的影响，这种影响既相同又消极。令人信服的地方在詹尼弗·沃娜的文章中已经提到了，此外这些地方与在上两次的文章所列出的信息有关，从而证明时尚杂志明显地影响着女性人口的肢体形象。

比较信息，事实，和统计资料

虽然普遍的信息出现在这些文章上是相似的，但是在这三篇文章中也有不同之处。社会问题研究中心，例如，来自不同国家对于女性肢体形象有统计信息，像瑞典，日本和美国。单单在美国，81%的十岁女孩至少已经节食一次。另一方面，瑞典有25%的七岁女孩为了减肥而在节食。最后，在日本，41%的小学女孩认为她们太胖了。与其它两篇文章相比，这篇文章的正确性更为值得注意，因为在这篇文章中统计资料和事实是非常有限的。

此外，詹尼弗·沃娜的文章也与其它两篇文章不同，在她的文章中，做了发表的专题论文，测试了一群年轻的大学女性，并在她们看了时尚杂志上那些模特的形象达到三分钟后询问了她们的感觉。比起其它两篇文章，这篇论文是很有策略，又很初级的研究性论文，因为它证明了第一手的信息，就是所有的女性对于她们自己的肢体形象来说，已经将杂志上的模特看成是她们所向往的满意程度。

女性和时尚杂志连在一起了

从整体上来说，这三篇不同的文章中所给出的信息包括女性和时尚杂志的确一个个有联系。全世界的杂志所传达给女性的信息都消极地影响着她们，在她们的自尊和自我价值中引起误差。现今，女性们遭受着许多不健康习惯的类型，这些不健康的习惯有令人着迷的运动，暴饮暴食，饥饿，甚至有时候，极度的行为举止会导致神经性厌食症或食欲过旺。