Abstract:
This qualitative research is concerned with an identity construction in the consumer culture. The objectives are to study the meaning of the womens body, the body discourse level and the influence of consumer culture on the women in terms of their decisions and motives to enter the process. The research was carried out by studying 10 case studies. The research shows that the women give special meaning to their bodies or the body identity construction and decide to go through the corpulence eradicated process. Their concerns include the gender, the social status, the socioeconomic, ethnicity, etc. The motives which cause the women to adopt this process are the social acceptance, the health content, the need for beautiful figure, the social sanction and the work place standard. The womens corpulence eradicated process reflects the relation between an identity and the body in cultural terms. At the same time, the research finds that the consumer culture influences the women by the fine discourse building of the skinny figure standard. The need to eradicate the corpulence persuades the women to consume the products and services. In the process to eradicate the corpulence the women choose the dietary pills, exercises, dietary foods, beauty services or even make themselves vomit. These products are produced in the consumer culture around the women lives and women became victims of consumer culture.