Hate Your Body We Show You How

This topic seeks to introduce you to the history of negative body image and how this continues to be a troubling aspect of many women's lives. Through exposure to popular culture women and girls are presented with the ideas that regardless of all their other achivements, they are a failure if they are not beautiful. There exist countless numbers of products that claim to make women look good enough. This leads to many women and girls being dissatisfied with their image.

Articles

Curvy Women Have No Place on the Catwalk
Russel Brand Posts Makeup-free Katy Perry on Twitter

Beauty At Any Cost (824 KB)

Websites

The ABCs and Ds of Commercial Images of Women

Videos/Songs/Shows

Oprah - Beauty Around the World
Jessica Simpson - The Price of Beauty
Unpretty - TLC
This Is Who I Am - Vanessa Amorosi