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Victoria’s Secret: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Sexual Objectification!
Hello Beautiful Friends! This piece was published almost a year ago, and since that point, I have written a paper on Victoria’s Secret that won a “top paper” award in the Women’s Studies division at...
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Thin Ideals and the Way We Feel
With such a wealth of research showing that women’s magazines are consistently presenting unrealistic and underweight images of bodies as average and attainable, and with such an intense focus on...
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Beauty Whitewashed: How White Ideals Exclude Women of Color
For Elle’s Feb 2014 cover, one of these covers is not like the other At Beauty Redefined, we talk a lot about harmful media beauty ideals that become unquestioned norms in our minds. Things like...
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It takes real-life strategies to recognize harmful ideals about beauty and health and then reject them! Start with this list of totally doable strategies to redefine beauty and health in ways that...
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“Weigh Less, Smile More:” How Fitness Magazines Define Health in Very...
Though fashion and lifestyle magazines are the traditional targets of research on body image dissatisfaction and eating disorder connections, I argue that fitness magazines are an even more important...
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The Lies We Buy: Defining Health at Women’s Expense
In June 2012, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force renewed a call for physicians to screen all adult patients for obesity by calculating the patient’s BMI, or body mass index. If the patient is...
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Cosmo Magazine: The Best-Seller That Sells Women Short
Cosmopolitan magazine – the notoriously risque and best-selling women’s magazine for decades – says it is “by women for women.” In a media landscape jam-packed with sources by men for women, this...
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Our Issue with Swimsuits (or lack thereof) in Sports Illustrated
Every February, the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue hits the mailboxes of 70 million SI subscribers, every newsstand and media outlet, and hundreds of millions will view the thousands of digitally...
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Weight, Size and Media Lies: The Numbers Don’t Add Up
We’ve all been duped. After years of TV watching, magazine reading, advertising exposure and media dominating our worlds, too many of us have internalized sneaky media lies that normal, average and...
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Photoshopping: Altering Images and Our Minds
Photoshopping, digital alteration, image manipulation, blah blah blah. Everyone talks about the fact that so many images of women are “perfected” with the help of technology, but we can’t just toss...
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