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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Engeln, Renee. Beauty sick. New York, NY : HarperCollins, [2017] (DLC) 2017029958 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Renee Engeln |
ISBN: | 9780062469779 0062469770 9780062469786 0062469789 9781538415863 1538415860 |
OCLC Number: | 952206572 |
Description: | xiv, 383 pages ; 24 cm |
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. |
Responsibility: | Renee Engeln, Ph. D. |
Abstract:
Today's young women are angry about the media's treatment of women but hungrily consume the very outlets that belittle them. Engeln 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. To truly fulfill their potential, we must break free from cultural forces that feed destructive desires, attitudes, and words. She provides inspiration and workable solutions to help girls and women overcome negative attitudes and embrace their whole selves.
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"Girls learn that how they look is more important than who they are-the essential symptom of beauty sickness.' But Engeln doesn't stop at diagnosis: she offers the possibility of a cure." -- Peggy Orenstein, <em>New York Times </em>bestselling author of <em>Girls & Sex</em> "Her solid ideas...will help women think positively about themselves regardless of body shape. Thorough research and helpful personal stories effectively relay the dilemma that nearly all women face on a daily basis." -- <em>Kirkus Reviews</em> "[Beauty Sick] will blow the top off the body image movement...provocative and necessary." -- <em>Rebellious Magazine</em> "Renee Engeln...argues that our obsession with women's looks amounts to a society-wide psychological illness...The book indicts social and news media in helping to create beauty sickness by drawing on research and interviews with real-world girls and women." -- Pacific Standard "[P]rofessor Engeln's sharp examination of beauty sickness reveals its disturbing impact on women of all ages, ethnicities, and backgrounds...Engeln's writing is engaging and conversational...Engeln's book is thought provoking and will be fascinating for all readers, especially those interested in psychology, cultural studies, media, or gender studies." -- Booklist <strong>(starred review)</strong> "Inspiring." -- -- PureWow "Info-packed...highly readable..." -- Elle "Beauty Sick is the title of Engeln's new book, which has more than 350 pages of exhaustive research, interviews, and analysis into the set of contradictions that inform the reality of millions of women's lives." -- The Times (London) Read more...


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- Body image in women.
- Beauty, Personal -- Psychological aspects.
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- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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