Download PDF HereDownload Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women
Read PDF HereRead Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women
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