Body Wars: Making Peace with Women's Bodies (an Activist's Guide)
by Margo Maine, Ph.d.
2021-01-04 00:14:55
Body Wars: Making Peace with Women's Bodies (an Activist's Guide)
by Margo Maine, Ph.d.
2021-01-04 00:14:55
Thanks to a constant barrage of magazine airbrushing and surgically altered bodies, our culture has been cruel to women's body image. In her body-activist's study, eating-disorder expert Margo Maine offers both a clear-eyed look at just how detriment...
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Thanks to a constant barrage of magazine airbrushing and surgically altered bodies, our culture has been cruel to women's body image. In her body-activist's study, eating-disorder expert Margo Maine offers both a clear-eyed look at just how detrimental this obsession is for women along with detailing the tools for regaining control. Body Wars examines how impossible standards, not only of beauty but also of fitness, have made women essentially hate their own bodies. Through a series of issue-specific chapters, Maine provides fresh insight into the body-image hype and how to deflect it so that women - and particularly girls - accept themselves with confidence.
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