About this title: Written for activists and educators, this cultural critique of female body image discusses the topic as it relates to sports, fashion, advertising, and propaganda, and offers practical strategies for those willing to fight unhealthy or unrealistic female images in society. Original. Tour.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Gurze Books
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780936077345ISBN:0936077344
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Gurze Books
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780936077345ISBN:0936077344
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Gurze Books
Date Published: 1999
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"Liberation or Consumerism? Why do we limit girls' goals to their potential as consumers and dieters? How did the Body Wars overtake the self-esteem, logic and judgment of women who are capable of so much? By maintaining the stat quo, Body Wars represent the clash between women's potential and their actual position in western culture. ..better to keep women worried about how they look than to deal with issues of quality! Althugh women have slowly gained rights (although still only earning 75 cents for every dollar of their male counterparts)the marketing of body dissatisfaction has replaced the antiquated laws and customs which, in the past, had limited women's power. from Body Wars.
...alas it's true. i'm daily appalled by people, even friends, who tell me they judge people by their looks, and are only interested in a person's outward appearance. these are actual, supposedly full-grown adults. although, admittedly, mostly men..."
"If you know anything about women's issues, there is nothing new here, and if you know nothing about women's issues you'll probably find this annoyingly conspiratorial and heavy-handed. It even annoyed me, and I basically agree with her."
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