Feeding women with animal metaphors that promote eating disorders in the written media
This paper looks at animal based metaphors used by the written media in order to convey negative messages about the relationship of women with food. By analyzing a corpus of met aphors extracted from different sorts of publications, which include newspapers and maga zines, this article tries to shed some light on how such figurative usages together with their visual representation may contribute to women's body dissatisfaction, thin ideal internalization and disordered eating.