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peace with our bodies
by the Rev. Laura Gentry |
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Author's Web site suggestions:
Honoring the Body
is a page from the "Practicing Our Faith" Web site that offers
faith practices associated with honoring the body.
About-Face promotes
positive self-esteem in girls and women of all ages, sizes,
races, and backgrounds through a spirited approach to media
education, outreach, and activism.
Media Awareness Network is home to one of the world’s
most comprehensive collections of media education and
Internet literacy resources. This Canadian site gives
detailed information about the damage to self-esteem the
media causes and resources for how to counter it with media
literacy.
Body Icon is a well-designed journalism graduate project
from Columbia University. It has great links, tidbits of
information, and
graphics.
AdiosBarbie.com
is a
body image site for every body. No matter what your size or
background, you'll be inspired to love your body through
thick and thin!
4Women.gov is
the national women’s health information center. This link
contains information about developing and nurturing a
positive body image and a healthy mental attitude.
Other Web
sites of interest:
The “Love
Your Body"
campaign, started by the National Organization for
Women, is a yearly effort promoting
healthy attitudes for women about their bodies. Send an
e-card as part of this celebration. "Love Your Body" day
is October 19.
Eating Disorder Referral
Organization
National Association of
Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders
American Anorexia
Bulimia Association
Eating Disorders Awareness and
Prevention Inc.
Better Health Channel, a Canadian
Web site, lists
information about positive body image.
Women’s Body Image Homepage
Articles:
"That fat between the ears," by Wendy McClure,
Chicago Sun-Times Web site, July 31, 2005.
“Predictors of body image dissatisfaction in adult men and
women,” by Sharin Palladino Green and Mary E. Pritchard (Miami
University, Ohio, University of Evansville, Ind.), Social
Behavior and Personality: an international Journal Web site,
2003.
"Image Conscious Teens Prone to Supplement Use," by
Jennifer Warner, WebMDHealth Web Site, 2005.
“How to spot body-image disorders and where to go for help,"
American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,
mvHealth.com Web site,
2001.
“Dieting, body weight, body image and self-esteem in young
women: doctors' dilemmas,” by Suzanne F Abraham, The Medical Journal of Australia Web site, 2003.
“Body Image,” by Cindy Maynard, MS, RD. Eating Disorder
Referral Organization Web site, 1998.
More books:
The Body Project: An
Intimate History of American Girls by Joan Jacobs
Brumberg, Vintage Books, 1997.
The Body Image Workbook: An
8-Step Program for Learning to Like Your Looks
by Thomas F. Cash, Ph.D., New Harbinger Publications, 1997.
Transforming Body Image: Love the Body You Have, by
Marcia Germaine Hutchinson, Crossing Press, 1985.
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Recommended Books:
Starving for Salvation: The Spiritual
Dimensions of Eating Problems among American Girls and Women, Michelle Mary Lelwica,
Oxford University Press, 1991.
This book explores the spiritual dimensions of anorexia, bulimia, and
related women’s body issues. Lelwica claims that girls and women
starve, binge, and purge their bodies as a means of coping with the
pain and injustice of their daily lives. It introduces positive ways
that our society can nourish the creative and spiritual needs of girls
and women.
Body Outlaws: Young
Women Write about Body Image and Identity,
Rebecca Walker
(foreword), Ophira Edut (ed.), Seal Press, 1998.
The publisher of the magazine Hear Us Emerging Sisters, has
brought together a powerful collection of young women’s perspectives
on body image, Barbie, and the inherent value of the un-blonde, the
un-tall and the un-anorexic. More than 25 contributors offer a wide
variety of attitudes toward the female body.
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are
Used Against Women, Naomi Wolf,
HarperCollins, 2002.
The Beauty Myth exposes the media, advertisements and the
cosmetic industries for creating an unattainable beauty standard that
leaves women hating their bodies and undeservedly disappointed with
themselves.
Bodylove: Learning to Like Our Looks and
Ourselves: A Practical Guide for Women, Rita Freedman,
Gurze Books, 2002.
This book is for women who want to become less critical of their
appearance, less preoccupied with weight, and more in love with
themselves — physically, sexually, and emotionally. Combining vivid
case histories, practical techniques, and simple exercises,
Bodylove addresses family expectations, self-esteem, aging, and
social values.
Working with Groups to Explore Food & Body
Connections: Eating Issues, Body Image, Size Acceptance, Self-Care
(Structured Exercises in Healing), Sandy Stewart Christian (ed.),
Whole Person Associates, 1996.
This innovative collection of 36 group processes gathered from experts
around the country tackles complex and painful issues like dieting,
weight, healthy eating, fitness, body image, and self-esteem — using a
whole person approach.
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