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

by Renee Engeln

Book Overview

An award-winning Northwestern University 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 Naomi Wolf, Peggy Orenstein, and Sheryl Sandberg.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062469770
• ISBN13: 9780062469779
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"