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Publisher
Flower Films
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
A charming valentine to women born with a space between their teeth, ranging from lighthearted whimsy to a deeper look at issues like self-esteem and societal attitudes toward standards of beauty. Interviews were conducted with over one hundred women, including model Lauren Hutton and Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
5) My body
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this personal exploration of feminism, sexuality and power, of men's treatment of women and women's rationalizations for accepting that treatment, the acclaimed model and actress presents essays that chronicle moments of her life while investigating culture's fetishization of girls and female beauty.
Publisher
Xenon Pictures
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Every year Americans spend an average of $12.4 billion (yes, billion!) on cosmetic surgery procedures. Why are we being conditioned not to like the way we look? Award-winning filmmaker Darryl Roberts goes on a five-year journey to unearth the origins and deadly risks of our nation's quest for physical perfection.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"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 generations of women before them, are told they must look like them. They're angry about the media's treatment of women but hungrily consume the very outlets that belittle them. They mock modern culture's absurd beauty ideal and make videos exposing Photoshopping tricks, but feel pressured to emulate the same images they...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An incisive and vulnerable yet powerful and provocative collection of essays, Savala offers poignant reflections on living between society's most charged, politicized, and intractably polar spaces: between black and white, between rich and poor, between thin and fat - as a woman. The daughter of an Afro-Latinx father and a white mother, Savala's light complexion has always contrast her kinky hair and broad nose to embody what old folks used to call...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsEspañol
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
"Enfermas de belleza revela las consecuencias alarmantes de la obsesión de nuestra cultura por la apariencia en la salud física y emocional de niñas y mujeres, sus cateras y sus ambiciones. Estas consecuencias incluyen depresión, trastornos alimenticios, trastornos en el procesamiento cognitivo y pérdida de tiempo y dinero. Enfermas de belleza inicia una conversación entre mujeres de todas las edades que vivien en el obsesionado mundo actual....
Author
Publisher
Zed Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Glamour: Women, History, Feminism explores the changing meanings of the word glamour, its relationship to femininity and fashion, and its place in twentieth-century social history. Using a rich variety of sources from women's magazines and film, to social surveys and life histories Carol Dyhouse examines with wit and insight the history and meaning of costume, cosmetics, perfume and fur.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Part social commentary, part cultural analysis, part careful investigation and part powerful personal anecdotes, a provocative book explores the relationship between appearance and science, social media, sex, friendship, language and advertising to show how beauty actually affects us day to day, "--NoveList.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Emmeline Clein tells the story of her own disordered eating alongside and through other women from history, pop culture and the girls she's known and loved. Tracing the medical and cultural history of anorexia, bulimia, and orthorexia, Clein investigates the economic conditions underpinning our eating disorder epidemic, and illuminates the ways racism and today's feminism have been complicit in propping up the thin ideal. While examining GOOP, Simone...
Series
Criterion collection volume 737
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
The blues accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins (31 min.) : A portrait of Texas bluesman Lightin' Hopkins created via a collection of musical performances and oral histories
God respects us when we work, but loves us when we dance (20 min.) : A look at hippies and flower children as they dance and create rituals during the Los Angeles "Love-In" of Easter Sunday, 1967.
Spend it all (43 min.) : A portrayal of the lives and music of the French-speaking Cajuns...
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