Monday, June 15, 2009

Reflection without the mirror

I just thought I'd share the book/online resource list that Rosa, the body image charity, published today on their facebook page

Books/Articles

Sarah Grogan
Body Image: Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men, Women and Children [2nd edition] (2008)

Susan Bordo
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body (1993)

Susie Orbach
Fat Is A Feminist Issue (1978)

Susie Orbach
Bodies (2009)

Sandra-Lee Bartky
Foucault, Femininity and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power (1988) [taken from I. Diamond & L. Quinby, Feminism and Foucault: Reflections on Resistance]

Naomi Wolf
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women (1991)

Caroline Knapp
Appetites: Why Women Want (2003)

Margo Maine & Joe Kelly
The Body Myth: Adult Women and the Pressure to be Perfect (2005)

Websites/Blogs

AnyBody
http://www.any-body.org

Pink Stinks
http://www.pinkstinks.co.uk

The Illusionists
http://aseachange.com/blog-illusionists

About Face
http://www.about-face.org

You can add to the list here, in the comments, or back over with Rosa on facebook.

Charlotte

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