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 AdiosBarbie.com Description: Articles, features, news and polls on a variety of body image topics. (adiosbarbie.com) |
| Anachick's Haven Description: Journal and personal site of a recovering anorexic. (anachick1.tripod.com) |
| Body Image Description: This is an useful, informative website that uncovers the issue of body image, why women have become preoccupied with their appearance, and how the media reflects upon these. (freewebs.com) |
| Body Image Health Description: Promoting healthy body image attitudes. Preventing eating and weight concerns. (bodyimagehealth.org) |
| Body Positive Description: Features articles, forums, psychological exercises, activism ideas, and resources. (bodypositive.com) |
| Chronic Illness and Body Image Description: An article from Rest Ministries on negative body image in people with chronic illness, and its psychological effects. (restministries.org) |
| Cognitive Behavior Therapy as a Treatment for Body Image Dissatisfaction Description: Brief overview of a report by Vanderbilt University's psychology department, exploring cognitive behavior therapy as treatment for body image disatisfaction. (vanderbilt.edu) |
| Council on Size and Weight Discrimination Description: Articles, links and resources on discrimination and media images, with information about how to become a media-watch volunteer. (cswd.org) |
| Detroit News: Immigrant Girls Suffer from Anorexia Description: Article on the pressures faced by immigrant girls seeking acceptance in US society. (detnews.com) |
| Disability Cool: Sexuality 'R Us Description: Article exploring the link between fat oppression and the experiences of women with disabilities. (geocities.com) |
| Does Your Daughter Have a Positive Body Image? Description: Teenage girls tend to struggle with body image in far greater numbers than boys. (parentingteens.about.com) |
| Don't Tell Me What Size I Must B Description: An international group of women, dedicated to halting the discrimination against plus size women by the media and fashion industries. (geocities.com) |
| I Am Beautiful Description: Aiming to promote self-esteem through self-discovery. Includes excerpts and ordering for the book and video, resources including a quiz, messageboard and links. (iambeautiful.com) |
| Male Body Image Description: Brief article examining the idea of male bodily perfection. (infoplease.com) |
| Mirror, Mirror Description: From the Social Issues Research Center, a summary of findings on body image. (sirc.org) |
| My Flatsy Forum Description: Support forum for flat-chested women. (alexandra-aaa.com) |
| Normal Breasts Gallery Description: Pictures of normal (non-sexual) breasts, big, small, flat-chested, sagging, asymmetrical, different size areolas, with the purpose that women and girls can stop worrying about the size and shape of their own. (007b.com) |
| NPR : Beauty Series, Part 1: Setting the Beauty Agenda Description: NPR's Susan Stamberg talks with Linda Wells, editor of Allure magazine about the magazine, its coverage of beauty issues, and how it chooses what goes on the cover. [6:10 Realaudio broadcast] (npr.org) |
| NPR : Beauty Series, Part 2: Pitching Beauty to Teens Description: Jean Kilbourne, author of Can't Buy My Love -- How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel, says the media have created an ideal of beauty for young girls that is dangerously unachievable. Kilbourne speaks with NPR's Susan Stamberg in the second in a series of conversations on the nature of beauty. [6:44 Realaudio broadcast] (npr.org) |
| Psychology: Body Image Description: Information on a collection of documentary films and videos on body image, primarily for educational use from Film Makers Libraries. (filmakers.com) |
| Rocki's Hips and Curves Appreciation Page Description: Dedicated to the plus-sized woman. Includes photos and tributes to famous larger women and positive messages for women about loving their bodies. (pacificlib.tripod.com) |
| Short Persons Support Description: Provides support and reference material to persons of short stature and creates a forum to teach people about the social issues of being short. [Society/Support_Groups/] (shortsupport.org) |
| Small Step Description: Stories, newsletter, tips and recipes geared to helping people manage their weight and body image. (smallstep.gov) |
| Suite101: Body Size Issues and Concerns Description: Articles and forum about body size issues and concerns. (suite101.com) |
| The Body Burden - Living in the Shadow of Barbie Description: Information about and reviews of the book by Stacey Handler, granddaughter of the woman who created the Barbie doll, in which she openly discloses her own battle with her body image. (bodyburden.com) |
| The Cincinnati Post: Better Dead than Fat Description: Short article about poll findings that women would choose weight loss over longevity. (cincypost.com) |
| The Psychology of Ideal Body Image Description: Article by Barbara A. Cohen, Ph.D. examining the psychology of the idealized body. (healingthehumanspirit.com) |
| Tit 4 Tat Description: Where attitude and apparel intersect. Library of articles and links. (tit4tat.net) |
| Women's Body Image Description: Contains a definition of the term, student's thoughts, and discussion of the health effects of poor body image, and of the impact of the media. (wellesley.edu) |
