Books Details
Author : Renee Engeln Pages : 400 pages Publisher : Harper Paperbacks
Language : ISBN-10 : 0062469789 ISBN-13 : 9780062469786
Books Descriptions
Award-winning Northwestern University psychology professor Dr. Renee
Engeln reveals how the cultural?obsession with women's appearance?is an
epidemic that harms their ability to get ahead and to live happy,
meaningful lives, in this powerful, eye-opening work in the vein of Naomi
Wolf, Peggy Orenstein, and Sheryl Sandberg.Today?s young women face a
bewildering set of contradictions when it comes to beauty. They don?t
want to be Barbie dolls, but like generations of women before them,?are
told?they must look like them. They?re angry about the media?s
treatment of women but hungrily consume the very outlets that belittle
them. They mock modern culture?s absurd beauty ideal and make videos
exposing Photoshopping tricks but?feel pressured?to emulate the same
images they criticize by posing with a "skinny arm." They understand that
what they see isn?t real but still download apps to airbrush their selfies.
Yet these same young women are fierce fighters for the issues they care
about. They
