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SCULPTING THE FEMALE BREAST: HOW COLLEGE WOMEN NEGOTIATE THE MEDIA'S IDEAL BREAST IMAGE
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Through focus group interviews, this study examined how college women negotiate exposure to media images of disproportionately large-breasted women. The results showed that media images directly and indirectly influence women's breast satisfaction. Personal experiences; self-confidence; and interactions with men, family, and friends influenced their views of ideal breast size.
My discomfort with small breasts was more than just cosmetic. I felt the lack as a poverty of being, as if my ...
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Your Life: Nipper and tuck; SKINNY CELEB MUMS CREATE HUGE PRESSURE ON AFTER THEY GIVE BIRTH. THESE FIVE MUMS FINALLY RESORTED TO SURGERY. NEW MOTHERS TO GET THEIR FIGURES BACK RIGHT.(Features)
The Mirror (London, England)
; Byline: BY JULIE BURNISTON I had boobs like deflated balloons FULL-TIME mum Donna Austin lives with husband Mark, 31, a factory manager, and children Paige, three, and Cameron, one, in Walsall. Donna, 29, had breast surgery last October. She says: Until I had kids I'd never given my body a second
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Who's boosting their busts? 3 kinds of surgical Sallys
Chicago Sun-Times
; Have you ever wondered why Americans are so obsessed with breasts? The two pads of fat and mammary glands are important for providing nutrition to our infants, but why is their size so crucial to our sexual self-esteem? The number of breast augmentation surgeries in the United States is rising at a
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Mammographic evaluation of the augmented breast. (includes continuing education posttest)
Radiologic Technology
; This article is a Directed Reading. Seethe quiz at conclusion. Breast augmentation may be performed to enhance a woman's self-image, to correct congenital abnormalities or to reconstruct breast tissue removed during surgery related to breast cancer or trauma.[1,2] Of the more than 2 million
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S&M
The Independent - London
; Most female primates only develop big breasts during lactation, but human females have permanent swellings. In his book The Naked Ape Desmond Morris offers a neat evolutionary explanation for why we differ from our relatives. He suggests that when humans stopped walking on all fours and started
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AMAZING GRACE 'X-MEN' NO MORE
The Manila Times
; OF course, there's a lot of difference between a man and a woman. This fact cannot be contested. Although this is true, males who want to be females claim that they are women to begin with, who want to express themselves as women. They insist that they are not men wanting to be women. Thailand is
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