Directory of Body Image Resources

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Subcategories

• Body Dysmorphic Disorder
• Fat Acceptance
• Media Pressures
• Pro-Anorexia

Resources in This Category

• AdiosBarbie.com

  http://www.adiosbarbie.com/
  Articles, features, news and polls on a variety of body image topics.

• Bella Online: Body Image

  http://bodyimage.bellaonline.com/
  Articles and forum devoted to improving self-esteem by developing a better body image.

• Body Image Health

  http://www.bodyimagehealth.org/
  Promoting healthy body image attitudes. Preventing eating and weight concerns.

• Body Positive

  http://www.bodypositive.com/
  Features articles, forums, psychological exercises, activism ideas, and resources.

• bOObs: A Guide to Your Girls

  http://booksonboobs.com/
  Celebrate your breasts: health and cancer issues to breastfeeding and cosmetic surgery.

• Council on Size and Weight Discrimination

  http://www.cswd.org/
  Articles, links and resources on discrimination and media images, with information about how to become a media-watch volunteer.

• Does Your Daughter Have a Positive Body Image?

  http://parentingteens.about.com/cs/bodyimage/a/bodyimage5.htm
  Teenage girls tend to struggle with body image in far greater numbers than boys.

• Male Body Image

  http://www.infoplease.com/spot/mbi2.html
  Brief article examining the idea of male bodily perfection.

• Mirror, Mirror

  http://www.sirc.org/publik/mirror.html
  From the Social Issues Research Center, a summary of findings on body image.

• NPR : Beauty Series, Part 1: Setting the Beauty Agenda

  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1958117
  NPR's Susan Stamberg talks with Linda Wells, editor of Allure magazine about the magazine, its coverage of beauty issues, and how it chooses what goes on the cover. [6:10 Realaudio broadcast]

• NPR : Beauty Series, Part 2: Pitching Beauty to Teens

  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1968820
  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]

• Short Persons Support

  http://www.shortsupport.org/
  Provides support and reference material to persons of short stature and creates a forum to teach people about the social issues of being short.

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