Beauty sick : how the cultural obsession with appearance hurts girls and women / Renee Engeln, Ph.D.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : Harper an imprint of Harper CollinsPublishers, [2017]Description: xiv, 383 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780062469786
- 306.4 ENG 23
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | Moylish Library Main Collection | 306.4 ENG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39002100604116 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"[Beauty Sick] will blow the top off the body image movement...provocative and necessary." -- Rebellious Magazine
An award-winning psychology professor reveals how the cultural obsession with women's appearance is an epidemic that harms women's ability to get ahead and to live happy, meaningful lives, in this powerful, eye-opening work in the vein of Peggy Orenstein and Sheryl Sandberg.
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 outlets that belittle them. They mock modern culture's absurd beauty ideal and make videos exposing Photoshopping tricks, but feel pressured to emulate the same images they criticize by posing with a "skinny arm." They understand that what they see isn't real but still download apps to airbrush their selfies. Yet these same young women are fierce fighters for the issues they care about. They are ready to fight back against their beauty-sick culture and create a different world for themselves, but they need a way forward.
In Beauty Sick, Dr. Renee Engeln, whose TEDx talk on beauty sickness has received more than 250,000 views, reveals the shocking consequences of our obsession with girls' appearance on their emotional and physical health and their wallets and ambitions, including depression, eating disorders, disruptions in cognitive processing, and lost money and time. Combining scientific studies with the voices of real women of all ages, she makes clear that to truly fulfill their potential, we must break free from cultural forces that feed destructive desires, attitudes, and words--from fat-shaming to denigrating commentary about other women. She provides inspiration and workable solutions to help girls and women overcome negative attitudes and embrace their whole selves, to transform their lives, claim the futures they deserve, and, ultimately, change their world.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction (p. xi)
- Part 1 This Is Beauty Sickness
- Chapter 1 Will I Be Pretty? (p. 3)
- Chapter 2 Just Like a Woman (p. 21)
- Chapter 3 I, Object (p. 39)
- Part 2 This Is What Beauty Sickness Does to Women
- Chapter 4 Your Mind on Your Body and Your Body on Your Mind (p. 63)
- Chapter 5 It's a Shame (p. 89)
- Chapter 6 Your Money and Your Time (p. 111)
- Part 3 This Is How the Media Feeds Beauty Sickness
- Chapter 7 Malignant Mainstream Media (p. 141)
- Chapter 8 (Anti)social Media and Online Obsessions (p. 169)
- Part 4 The Ways We're Fighting Beauty Sickness Aren't Working
- Chapter 9 Media Literacy Is Not Enough (p. 195)
- Chapter 10 The Problem with "Real Beauty" (p. 213)
- Part 5 How We Can Fight Beauty Sickness
- Chapter 11 Turning Down the Volume (p. 231)
- Chapter 12 Stop the Body Talk (p. 255)
- Chapter 13 Function over Form (p. 279)
- Chapter 14 Learning to Love Your Body and Teaching Others to Do the Same (p. 305)
- Chapter 15 Turning Away from the Mirror to Face the World (p. 331)
- Acknowledgments (p. 357)
- Notes (p. 359)
- Index (p. 371)