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
Monday, June 15, 2009
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