Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women

by Renee Engeln

Book Overview

Today's young women face a bewildering set of contradictions when it comes to beauty. They don't want to be Barbie dolls, but still feel they must look like Barbie dolls. They're angry about how women are treated by the media, but they readily consume the same media that belittles them. They mock our culture's absurd beauty ideal. They make videos exposing Photoshop tricks. But they can't help wanting to emulate the same images they criticize...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062469789
• ISBN13: 9780062469786
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 7.9"