Beauty Sick

Description

An award-winning Northwestern University psychology professor reveals how the obsession with body image in today's generation of women is an epidemic that is harming their ability to get ahead and to live happy, meaningful lives, in this powerful, eye-opening work in the vein of Naomi Klein, Peggy Orenstein, and Sheryl Sandberg.Today's young women embody 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, feel 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 try to emulate the same images they criticize by posing with a "skinny arm." They understand that what they see isn't real but still download apps to airbrush their selfies. Yet these same young women are fierce fighters for the issues they care...