NPR : Beauty Series, Part 2: Pitching Beauty to Teens
Jean Kilbourne, author of Can't Buy My Love -- How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel, says the media have created an ideal of beauty for young girls that is dangerously unachievable. Kilbourne speaks with NPR's Susan Stamberg in the second in a series of conversations on the nature of beauty. [6:44 Realaudio broadcast] (June 15, 2004)
Psychology: Body Image
Information on a collection of documentary films and videos on body image, primarily for educational use from Film Makers Libraries.
Short Persons Support
Provides support and reference material to persons of short stature and creates a forum to teach people about the social issues of being short.
Small Step
Stories, newsletter, tips and recipes geared to helping people manage their weight and body image.
Suite101: Body Size Issues and Concerns
Articles and forum about body size issues and concerns.
The Body Burden - Living in the Shadow of Barbie
Information about and reviews of the book by Stacey Handler, granddaughter of the woman who created the Barbie doll, in which she openly discloses her own battle with her body image.
The Cincinnati Post: Better Dead than Fat
Short article about poll findings that women would choose weight loss over longevity. (July 19, 2001)
The Psychology of Ideal Body Image
Article by Barbara A. Cohen, Ph.D. examining the psychology of the idealized body.
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