Case study one Sports such as tennis are beginning to confront to tensions associated with maintaining a production line of young, and in many cases underage, teenage girls for the professional ranks. ... In December 1998 the A.I.S was the subject of media scrutiny after it was alleged that female tennis scholarship holders had been victimised for being over weight. ... Golden Girl Image Sexing up of sport is perhaps even a bizarre attempt to revive the golden girl image of the late 1990's. ... The mythology of the golden girls was essentially a romantic image of white Australia. It i...

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Startling statistics show that "53% of 13-year-old girls are unhappy with their bodies. ... "Approximately 91% of women are unhappy with their bodies and resort to dieting to achieve their ideal body shape. Unfortunately, only 5% of women naturally possess the body type often portrayed by Americans in the media" (DoSomething.org) What most people, especially children, do not realize is that media's main priority is to sell something - whether it's a hamburger, makeup, weight loss pills, a car, or a razor blade, and the thing that all those advertisements have in comm...

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