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Beauty Sick






Auteur : Renee Engeln, PhD
Éditeur : HarperCollins
Catégories : Social Science, Women's Studies, Self-Help, Eating Disorders & Body Image, Psychology, Mental Health, Education, Educational Psychology, Social Science, Research, Social Science, Media Studies, Self-Help, Fashion & Style, Psychology, History, Social Science, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Psychology, Social Psychology

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ISBN : 0062469797, isbn2




“[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.




Langue : EN
Date de sortie : 18/04/2017
Nombre de pages : 256
Type : Ebook




Format : EPUB
Nombre de fichier(s) : 1
Poids Total : 1.3 Mo