Nita Mary McKinley, Ph.D.

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Objectified Body Consciousness

McKinley, N. M. (1999).  Women and objectified body consciousness: Mothers' and daughters' body experience in cultural, develomental, and familial context.  Developmental Psychology, 35, 760-769. 

McKinley, N. M. (1998).  Gender differences in undergraduates' body esteem: The mediating effect of objectified body consciousness and actual/ideal weight discrepancy.  Sex Roles, 39, 113-123. 

McKinley, N. M., & Hyde, J. S. (1996). The objectified body consciousness scale: Development and validation. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 20, 181-215. 

Other Publications

McKinley, N. M. (1999). Ideal weight/Ideal women: Society constructs the female. In J. Sobal & D. Maurer (Eds.) Weighty issues: Constructing fatness and thinness as social problems. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. 

McKinley, N. M., & Billingham, L. (1998).  Cervical cancer and STD health beliefs: Predicting pelvic exam intentions in undergraduates.  Women’s Health: Research on Gender, Behavior, and Policy, 4, 155-168.

Hyde, J.S. & McKinley, N.M. (1997). Gender differences in cognition: Results from meta-analyses. In P.J.Caplan, M. Crawford, J.S. Hyde, & J. R. E. Richardson (Eds.), Gender differences in human cognition. (p. 30-51). New York: Oxford University Press. 

Hyde, J. S., & McKinley, N. M. (1993). Beliefs about the consequences of maternal employment for children: Psychometric analyses. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 17, 177-191. 

Review Articles
McKinley, N. M. (in press). The evolution of thinking about gender: from individual difference to group process. Psychology of Women Quarterly.

McKinley, N.M. (in press). A feminist look at adolescent girls' lives. Psychology of Women Quarterly.

McKinley, N. M. (2000).  Constructing and deconstructing the body: A review of recent body image videos.  Feminist Collections: A quarterly of women’s studies resources, 21, 5-7.

McKinley, N. M. (Spring, 1995). Eating disorders and feminism. Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources, 16, 1-3. 

Papers Presented

McKinley, N. M. (2002, June). Objectified body consciousness: Placing women's body experience in developmental and cultural context. In P. H. Miller & Ellin K. Scholnick (Chairs) Locating the body: Feminist perspectives on embodiment and development. Invited Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Philadelphia, PA

McKinley, N. M. (2001,August). Returning the gaze: A look at objectifiers and the social nature of objectification. In B. L. Fredrickson, (Chair), Self-Objectification-Causes, Consequences, and Resistance. Invited symposium presented at the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA.

McKinley, N. M. (2001, March). Attractiveness, health, & diversity: Re-constructing differences among women. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Women in Psychology, Los Angeles, CA.

McKinley, N. M. (2000, October). Minding our bodies, minding our minds: Women, society, and the pursuit of the feminine ideal. Paper presented in the Allegheny Humanities Lectures Series, Meadville, PA.

McKinley, N.M. (2000, August).  Beauty, Boon or Beast? Dilemmas of Lesbian Body Consciousness.  In J. C. Cogan (Chair) Disrupting the Cultural Narrative by Daring to Discuss Lesbian Beauty. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.

McKinley, N. M. (2000, May). Women’s body dissatisfaction: A normative or a normalizing discontent?  Paper presented at the First Allegheny College Intramural Faculty Conference.

McKinley, N. M., Cogan, J. C., & Robinson, S. (2000, March).  The gazer and the gazed upon: Building theories of lesbian body experience.  Discussion facilitated at the annual meeting of the Association for Women in Psychology, Salt Lake City, UT.

McKinley, N. M., & Wojszwilo, A. (1999, March). Feminism, political activism, and women’s body consciousness.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Women in Psychology, Providence, RI. 

McKinley, N. M. (1997, October). The effect of objectified body consciousness on peer evaluations: Encouraging body dissatisfaction in women. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the New England Psychological Association, North Easton, MA. 

McKinley, N. M. (1997, August). Resisting body dissatisfaction: Relationships between strategies and psychological well-being. In S. Yogev (Chair), The Psychology of Thinness and Body Image. Roundtable conducted at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. 

McKinley, N. M., & Wright, M. M. (1996, April). Looking good and feeling good: Women's strategies for body esteem. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, IL. 

McKinley, N. M. (1995, March). Practicing resistance: Fat women write about their bodies. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Women in Psychology, Indianapolis, Indiana. 

McKinley, N. M. (1994, August). Women and objectified body consciousness: A feminist analysis. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Los Angeles. 

Invited Address
McKinley, N.M. (2000, February).  Objectified body consciousness: Using feminist theory and psychology to understand women’s body experience.  Address to Allegheny Psi Chi, Meadville, PA.

Dissertation

McKinley, N. M. (1995). Women and objectified body consciousness: A feminist psychological analysis. (Doctoral Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 1995.) Dissertation Abstracts International, 56, 05B, 9527111. 

Body Image Research

 

Update {07-01-2002}. Comments? Nita McKinley