Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image

Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image Book Description

Pick up a magazine, turn on the TV, and you'll find few women who haven't been fried, dyed, plucked, or tucked. In short, you'll see no body outlaws. The writers in this groundbreaking anthology reveal a world where bodies come in all their many-splendored shapes, sizes, colors, and textures. In doing so, they expand the national dialogue on body image to include race, ethnicity, sexuality, and power-issues that, while often overlooked, are intimately linked to how women feel about their bodies. Body Outlaws offers stories by those who have chosen to ignore, subvert, or redefine the dominant beauty standard in order to feel at home in their bodies. In a culture where plastic surgery has become nearly as routine as a root canal, this expanded and updated edition of fresh and incisive commentary challenges the media's standard notions of beauty with honesty and humor. Included are several new essays outlining the latest trends in the beauty industry such as botox, plastic surgery, and exercise bulimia, as well as a fascinating analysis of how men are affected by these same rigors, a thorough resource section, and a curriculum guide.

Ophira Edut has contributed to Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image as an editor. Tali and Ophira Edut (The AstroTwins) began their astrological journey in 1992, when a computerized printout of their charts jolted them into a metaphysical awakening. Wanting to know how the heck someone's time, date, and place of birth could reveal so much about their character, they delved into an inquiry, using friends, family members, historical figures, and pop stars as case studies. Their fascination grew into an obsession-and then, a career.
Today, The AstroTwins reach over 40 million readers a month with their horoscopes in print, online, and broadcast. Their columns and predictio

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