"[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.
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