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hallmarks of young adult literature. Despite the advances made by various feminist
movements, “[G]irls’ lives are still adversely affected by social pressure to adhere to an
ideal standard of beauty,” says Beth Younger. This obsession with weight and appearance
is a heady mixture of information overload, media portrayal, and an overall propensity
for obesity in the past decades due to a number of complicating factors: food production,
stories are also part of this continuous portrayal of female bodies as either acceptable or
marginal, or even reversing our notions of either concept. In the Philippines, these stories
feature female protagonists who consider their appearances, though not necessarily their
weight and body shape and size, important enough that the text considers and
social spheres.
Lee G., (2016) “The Word of the Body: Depictions of Positive Body Image In Philippine
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