Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image (Live Girls)
 

Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image (Live Girls Series)

Pick up a magazine, turn on the TV, and you'll find few women who haven't been fried, dyed, plucked, or tucked. In short, you'll see no body outlaws. The writers in this groundbreaking anthology reveal a world where bodies come in all their many-splendored shapes, sizes, colors, and textures. In doing so, they expand the national dialogue on body image to include race, ethnicity, sexuality, and... (read more)

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Katie H
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I read this in college when I was thinking a lot about body-image / identity / self-esteem issues. This diverse collection of essays relating to a wide variety of body-image-related themes (i.e. not just weight) is a great read for its diversity as well as well as its insight. Being a collection, the writers all take different styles (some academic, some fuck-you-riot-grrl) as well as points of view, which I think makes it interesting.

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