Beauty sick how the cultural obsession with appearance hurts girls and women
"Today's young women face a bewildering set of contradictions when it comes to beauty. They don't want to be Barbie dolls but, like generations of women before them, are told they must look like them. They're angry about the media's treatment of women but hungrily consume the very outlets that belit...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Harper an imprint of Harper CollinsPublishers,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- This is beauty sickness. Will I be pretty? ; Just like a woman ; I, object
- This is what beauty sickness does to women. Your mind on your body and your body on your mind ; It's a shame ; Your money and your time
- This is how the media feeds beauty sickness. Malignant mainstream media ; (Anti)social media and online obsessions
- The ways we're fighting beauty sickness aren't working. Media literacy is not enough ; The problem with "real beauty"
- How we can fight beauty sickness. Turning down the volume ; Stop the body talk ; Function over form ; Learning to love your body and teaching others to do the same ; Turning away from the mirror to face the world.
