Beauty Sick av Renee PhD Engeln

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<p><strong>“[<em>Beauty Sick</em>] will blow the top off the body image movement…provocative and necessary.” — <em>Rebellious Magazine</em></strong></p><p><strong>An award-winning psychology professor reveals how the cultural obsession with women''s appearance is an epidemic that harms women''s ability to get ahead and to live happy, meaningful lives, in this powerful, eye-opening work in the vein of Peggy Orenstein and Sheryl Sandberg.</strong></p><p>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 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 c