Beauty and Body Image

So many little girls want to change everything about themselves. All we want to change is their minds…We can help every little girl see how beautiful she really is. -- Dove Campaign for Real Beauty

All Made Up: A Girl's Guide to Seeing Through Celebrity Hype and Celebrating Real Beauty. Brashich, Audrey. New York: Walker & Company, 2006.

AnyBody (Giving women a voice to challenge images of women).

The Beautiful Woman Project (A sculptural exhibition of the torsos of 119 real women aged 19-91).

The Beauty Myth.Wolf, Naomi. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1991.

The Body Image Project (Casts of real women's bodies).

The Body Myth: Adult Women and the Pressure to be Perfect. Maine, Margo and Kelly, Joe. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005 (and others).

Body Positive

Body Wars: Making Peace With Women's Bodies. Maine, Margo. Carlsbad: Gurze Books, 2000.

Campaign for Real Beauty (Dove's campaign, including a short video illustrating how the ideal image is created).

Ellen Fisher-Turk (The use of photography and journal writing to change how one sees oneself).

Girl Power-Retouch (A demonstration of retouching on a magazine cover).

Healthy Body Image: Teaching Kids to Eat and Love Their Bodies Too! (A comprehensive holistic guide and curriculum for upper elementary age children).

Inside Beauty (A behind-the-scenes look at the beauty and fashion industries).

In Your Face: The Culture of Beauty and You. Graydon, Shari. Toronto: Annick Press Ltd., 2004.

Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women (A film based on Jean Kilbourne's lecture).

Looking Queer: Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and Transgender Communities. Atkins, Dawn (ed.). Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press, 1998.

The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private. Bordo, Susan. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000.

The Media and Body Image: If Looks Could Kill. Wykes, Maggie and Gunter, Barrie. London: Sage Publications, 2005.

Mind on the Media/Turn Beauty Inside Out Project (Works to foster awareness of images of girls and women in the media).

M.O.D. Squad Handbook and 7 Principles for Raising Healthy Girls (A media literacy handbook for mothers to help raise healthy children in a diet-crazed world).

National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance

The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness. Chernin, Kim. New York: Harper & Row, 1981 (and others).

Real Kids Come in All Sizes: Ten Essential Lessons to Build Your Child's Body Esteem. Kater, Kathy. New York: Broadway Books, 2004.

Real Women Project

Slim Hopes: Advertising & the Obsession with Thinness (A film based on Jean Kilbourne's lecture).

True Body Project (A journal and film created by teenage girls).

Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. Bordo, Susan. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993.

The Woman's Belly Book: Finding Your Treasure Within. Sarasohn, Lisa. 2003.