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The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
by Naomi Wolf  Publisher Comments Brilliantly persuasive, this is an exploration of the phenomenon of the violent backlash against feminism that uses images of female beauty as a political weapon against women's advancement. "A smart, angry, insightful book, and a clarion call to freedom"...
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Cunt Coloring Book
by Tee Corinne Publisher Comments Over 3 dozen cunts of every size and description for you to color. Originally used for a sex education class. Crayons not included....
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Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
by Susan Bordo Publisher Comments In this provocative book, Susan Bordo untangles the myths, ideologies, and pathologies of the modern female body. Bordo explores our tortured fascination with food, hunger, desire, and control, and its effects on women's lives....
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The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
by Joan Jacobs Brumberg Synopsis "Timely and sympathetic . . . a work of impassioned advocacy." --People A hundred years ago, women were lacing themselves into corsets and teaching their daughters to do the same. The ideal of the day, however, was inner beauty: a focus on good deeds and...
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Rapunzel's Daughters: What Women's Hair Tells Us about Women's Lives
by Rose Weitz Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-255) and index....
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Body Wars: Making Peace with Women's Bodies: An Activist's Guide
by Margo Maine Publisher Comments In this ground-breaking study, Margo Maine declares war on a culture that dismisses, devalues, and disempowers women by making them hate their own bodies. This book covers issues from dieting and weight prejudice to concepts of beauty and ageism to...
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Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image
by Ophira Edut Publisher Comments 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...
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The Female Body in Western Culture: Contemporary Perspectives
by Susan Rubi Suleiman Publisher Comments male-female oppositions. Androgyny in a new key? This book demonstrates that a blurring of gender boundaries does not have to deny difference....
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Stacked: A 32ddd Reports from the Front
by Susan Seligson Publisher Comments What is it about breasts — or if, you prefer, bazoombas, melons, Dolly Partons, or breastasauri — that inspires such fascination? No one is even sure why women have breasts when not pregnant or nursing, but start a conversation about them, Susan...
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Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion and Feminism
by Linda M Scott Publisher Comments Fresh Lipstick shakes feminist fashion down to its Birkenstocks. <BR>Linda M. Scott wants to put an end to the belief that American women have to wear a colorless, shapeless uniform to achieve liberation and equality. <BR>A pointed attack on...
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Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery
by Elizabeth Haiken Publisher Comments "Part history, part cultural/economic analysis, it explains better than anything else I've read what made American society so vulnerable to the seduction of the knife and the tyranny of visual conformity." -- The Times of...
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The Female Nude
by Lynda Nead Publisher Comments Anyone who examines the history of Western art must be struck by the prevalence of images of the female body. More than any other subject, the female nude connotes art'. The framed image of a female body, hung on the walls of an art gallery, is an icon...
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Religious Imagination and the Body: A Feminist Analysis
by Paula M Cooey Publisher Comments In recent years feminist scholarship has increasingly focused on the importance of the body and its representations in virtually every social, cultural, and intellectual context. Many have argued that because women are more closely identified with their...
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Hope in a Jar the Making of Americas Bea
by Kathy Peiss Publisher Comments How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a Victorian "kitchen physic," as homemade cosmetics were called, become a multi-billion-dollar industry? In Hope in a Jar, historian Kathy...
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Blonde Like Me: The Roots of the Blonde Myth in Our Culture
by Natalia Ilyin Publisher Comments In this irreverent, unsparing, and witty look at our cultural obsession with blonde, Natalia Ilyin shows us that our apparently modern fixation has truly primeval roots. Highlighting cultural criticism with personal experience, she cites ancient myths...
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Damage Control: Women on the Therapists, Beauticians, and Trainers Who Navigate Their Bodies
by Emma Forrest Publisher Comments Traditionally, women share their secrets with their hairdressers. But what about their manicurists, masseurs, chi gong teachers, and tattoo artists? In Damage Control, women wax poetic about the experts and gurus who help them love themselves, sharing...
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Appetites: Why Women Want
by Caroline Knapp Publisher Comments The bestselling author of "Drinking: A Love Story" and "Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs" has turned her brilliant eye towards how a woman's appetite--for food, for love, for work, and for pleasure--is shaped and constrained by...
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Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu #36: Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body
by Anna K Silver Publisher Comments Anna Krugovoy Silver examines the ways nineteenth-century British writers used physical states of the female body - hunger, appetite, fat and slenderness - in the creation of female characters. Silver argues that anorexia nervosa, first diagnosed in 1873,...
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Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion and Feminism
by Linda Scott Publisher Comments Fresh Lipstick shakes feminist fashion down to its Birkenstocks. Linda M. Scott wants to put an end to the belief that American women have to wear a colorless, shapeless uniform to achieve liberation and equality. A pointed attack on feminism's requisite...
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The Bigger the Better, the Tighter the Sweater: 21 Funny Women on Beauty, Body Image, & Other Hazards of Being Ffemale
by Samantha Schoech Publisher Comments Getting undressed for the dreaded seventh-grade gym class. Feeling fascinated with, yet disgusted by, the fashion magazines full of perfect, unattainable bodies. Enduring the pain of a bikini wax or suffering the ramifications of overplucked brows. Like...
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