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Beauté féminine (Esthétique) Aspect psychologique Body image in women Eating disorders in literature Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) Health Image du corps chez la femme États-Unis Mental health Troubles du comportement alimentaire chez la femme Aspect social États-Unis Troubles du comportement alimentaire dans la littérature United StatesWolf, Naomi.
Summary: This valuable study, full of infuriating statistics and examples, documents societal pressure on women to conform to a standard form of beauty. Freelance journalist Wolf cites predominant images that negatively influence women--the wrinkle-free, unnaturally skinny fashion model in advertisements and the curvaceous female in pornography--and questions why women risk their health and endure pain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 WOLClein, Emmeline
Summary: "A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal culture of disordered eating they've wrought. In Dead Weight, Emmeline Clein tells the story of her own disordered eating alongside and through other women from history, pop culture and the girls she's known and loved. Tracing the medical and cultural history of Anorexia, Bulimia, and Orthorexia,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024