Perfect

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Feeling Judged on Social Media

By Rosalind Gill

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Perfect by Rosalind Gill explores the complex realities behind social media's portrayal of 'perfection'. It reveals how young women navigate conflicting pressures to be both flawless and authentic, feeling simultaneously empowered and anxious. Drawing on interviews, the book highlights the emotional toll of striving for an ideal appearance and managing public scrutiny online.

Gill challenges simplistic views of young women as passive victims or fully in control digital natives, instead offering a nuanced insight into their experience of connection, validation, and worry.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in feminist studies, social media's social impact, youth culture, and mental health, as well as professionals and students in media, psychology, and gender studies.

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Social media is replete with images of perfection. But many are unrealistic and contribute to a pervasive sense of never being good enough: not thin enough; not pretty enough; not cool enough. Try too hard and you risk being condemned for being ‘attention-seeking’, don't try hard enough and you're slacking.

Rosalind Gill challenges polarised perspectives that see young women as either passive victims of social media or as savvy digital natives. She argues the real picture is far more ambivalent. Getting likes and followers and feeling connected to friends feels fantastic, but posting material and worrying about 'haters' causes significant anxieties.

Gill uses young women's own words to show how they feel watched all the time; worry about getting things wrong; and struggle to live up to an ideal of being 'perfect' yet at the same time ‘real’.

It's the wake-up call we all need.

Also available as an audiobook.

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Praised for its in-depth analysis, Perfect is described as a brilliant and urgent book that sensitively captures the ambivalent feelings young women have about social media. Sarah Banet-Weiser commends it as essential reading for feminist media studies, appreciating its resistance to moral panic narratives. Psychotherapist Susie Orbach calls it disturbing and affecting, while The Journal of Social recognises its value in understanding challenges faced by women aged 18-30 in everyday life and online.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781509549719

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 September 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Polity Press

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 137.0mm

Height: 213.0mm

Weight: 340g

Pages: 256

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Rosalind Gill Science & Nature

About the Author

Rosalind Gill is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at City, University of London.

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