George Magazine. |
"If we look critically at the ideal image, we see a woman who lacks full female secondary sex characteristics and looks like a man." (1) |
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"Current expectations of beauty are reflected in the images of women models, who by their omnipresence become unrealistic models for the way all women's bodies should be. These women are, on average, 5 feet 9 inches tall, and weigh less than the lowest weight considered healthy for their height." (2) |
George Magazine. |
Cover of Marie Clare. |
"The stereotyping of little girls and boys in the media has perhaps never been worse. Television programs for children are filled with active boys and passive girls, brought to them by commercials for action products for boys and beauty products and dolls for girls." (3) |
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"Advances in technology, medicine, and food production, wrought by painstaking human efforts, have given us a well-being virtually unknown in previous centuries. We should be grateful, but instead we hate our bodies because they bulge here or are flabby there or fail to respond to our most rigorous diets. Surely this is the worst form of hubris� to despise our bodies because they are not perfect." (4) |
Cosmopolitan Magazine, April 1999. |
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(1)Steiner-Adair, Catherine. "The Politics of Prevention." Feminist Perspectives on Eating Disorders. Fallon, Patricia, et al., eds. (New York: The Guilford Press, 1994) p. 386.
(2)Tolman, Deborah L. and Elizabeth Debold. "Conflicts of Body and Image: Female Adolescents, Desire, and the No-Body Body." Feminist Perspectives on Eating Disorders. Fallon, Patricia, et al., eds. (New York: The Guilford Press, 1994) p. 302.
(3)Kilbourne, Jean. "Still Killing Us Softly: Advertising and the obsession With Thinness." Feminist Perspectives on Eating Disorders. Fallon, Patricia, et al., eds. (New York: The Guilford Press, 1994) p. 397.
(4)Seid, Roberta P. "Too 'Close to the Bone': The Historical Context for Women's Obsession with Slenderness." Feminist Perspectives on Eating Disorders. Fallon, Patricia, et al., eds. (New York: The Guilford Press, 1994) p. 15.
