Meaning-making is…

Caracciolo, M., & Kukkonen, K. (2021). With bodies: Narrative theory and embodied cognition. The Ohio State University Press.

Johnson, M. (2008). What makes a body? The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 22(3), 159-169. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25670709.

Lakoff, G. & Johnson, M. (1999). Philosophy in the flesh: the embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought. Basic Books.

An individual’s embodied matrix…

Laditka, S. B., Laditka, J. N., Houck, M. M., & Olatosi, B. A. (2011). Not quite color blind: Ethnic and gender differences in attitudes toward older people among college students. The International Journal of Aging and Human Development73(1), 53-71. https://doi.org/10.2190/AG.73.1.c.

Levy, B. R., & Myers, L. M. (2004). Preventive health behaviors influenced by self-perceptions of aging. Preventive medicine39(3), 625-629. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2004.02.029.

Levy, B. R., Slade, M. D., & Gill, T. M. (2006). Hearing decline predicted by elders’ stereotypes. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences61(2), P82-P87. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/61.2.P82.

Kang, S. K., & Chasteen, A. L. (2009). The moderating role of age-group identification and perceived threat on stereotype threat among older adults. The International Journal of Aging and Human Development69(3), 201-220. https://doi.org/10.2190/AG.69.3.c.

Overall gender + racial/ethnic…

Simone, M., Telke, S., Anderson, L. M., Eisenberg, M., & Neumark-Sztainer, D. (2022). Ethnic/racial and gender differences in disordered eating behavior prevalence trajectories among women and men from adolescence into adulthood. Social Science & Medicine, 294, 114720. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114720.

Black females are less dissatisfied…

Simone, M., Telke, S., Anderson, L. M., Eisenberg, M., & Neumark-Sztainer, D. (2022). Ethnic/racial and gender differences in disordered eating behavior prevalence trajectories among women and men from adolescence into adulthood. Social Science & Medicine, 294, 114720. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114720.

Quick, V. M., & Byrd-Bredbenner, C. (2014). Disordered eating, socio-cultural media influencers, body image, and psychological factors among a racially/racialally diverse population of college women. Eating Behaviors, 15, 37-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2013.10.005.

Appearance Ideals & Black Women…

Awad, G. H., Norwood, C., Taylor, D. S., Martinez, M., McClain, S., Jones, B., Chapman-Hillard, C. (2015). Beauty and body image concerns among African American college women. Journal of Black Psychology, 41(6), 540-564. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0095798414550864.

Buchanan, T. S., Fischer, A. R., Tokar, D. M., & Yodar, J. D. (2008). Testing culture-specific extension of objectification theory regarding African American women’s body image. The Counseling Psychologist, 36(5), 697-718. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0011000008316322.

Capodilupo, C. M., & Kim, S. (2014). Gender and race matter: The importance of considering in Black women’s body image. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 61, 37-49. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/a0034597.

Essed, P. (1991). Understanding everyday racism: An interdisciplinary theory. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Harper, K., & Choma, B. L. (2019). Internalised White Ideal, Skin Tone Surveillance, and Hair Surveillance Predict Skin and Hair Dissatisfaction and Skin Bleaching among African American and Indian Women. Sex Roles, 80, 735–744. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-018-0966-9.

Hesse-Biber, S., Livingston, S., Ramirez, D., Barko, E. B., & Johnson, A. L. (2010). Racial identity and body image among Black female college students attending predominately White colleges. Sex Roles, 63, 697-711. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-010-9862-7.

Lowy, A. S., Rodgers, R. F., Franko, D. L., Pluhar, E., Webb, J. B. (2021). Body image and internalisation of appearance ideals in Black women: An update and call for culturally-sensitive research. Body Image, 39, 313-327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2021.10.005.

Personal well-being…

Cole, E. R. (2009). Intersectionality and research in psychology. American Psychologist, 64(2), 170-180. DOI: 10.1037/a0014564.

Collins, P. H. (1990). Black feminist thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment. Routledge.

May, V. M. (2015). Pursuing Intersectionality, unsettling dominant imaginaries. Routledge.

McCall, L. (2005). The complexity of intersectionality. Signs, 30, 1771-1800.

Romero, M. (2018). Introducing Intersectionality. Polity Press.

Normative discontent in body dissatisfaction…

Cash, T. F. (Ed.). (2012). Encyclopedia of body image and human appearance (Vol. 1, A-F). Elsevier.

MacLachlan, M., Mháille, G.N., Gallagher, P., Desmond, D. (2012). Embodiment and appearance. In N. Rumsey, & D. Harcourt (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Psychology of Appearance. Oxford University Press.

Violi, P. (2012). How our bodies become us: Embodiment, semiosis and intersubjectivity. Journal of Cognitive Semiotics, IV(1), 57-75.

Our physical body is crucial…

Cash, T. F. (2005). The influence of sociocultural factors on body image: Searching for constructs, Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, Vol 12(4), 438-442. 

Cash, T. F. (Ed.)(2012). Encyclopedia of body image and human appearance (Vol. 1, A-F). Elsevier.

MacLachlan, M. (2004). Embodiment: clinical, critical and cultural perspective on health and illness. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

MacLachlan, M., Mháille, G.N., Gallagher, P., Desmond, D. (2012). Embodiment and appearance (chapter 3). In N. Rumsey, & D. Harcourt (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Psychology of Appearance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.