“Will empower all women to stop believing that our bodies are the problems, dieting the solution.”—Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., author of The Dance of Anger In
Warns about the dangers associated with ineffective diet plans and bodily image obsessions, and encourages women to seek out the issues that underlie poor self-
Written for activists and educators, this cultural critique of female body image discusses the topic as it relates to sports, fashion, advertising, and propagan
Let’s be honest: most people are unhappy with at least some aspect of their physical appearance. Just think of all the money we spend each year trying to impr
“Self-loathing is a dark land studded with booby traps. Fumbling through its dark underbrush, we cannot see what our trouble actually is: that we are mistaken