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Feminist theory. --- Rape. --- Criminology. Victimology --- Sexology --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Human physiology --- Feminism --- Sexuality --- Sexually transgressive behavior --- Theory --- Rape --- Female body --- Book

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Women and psychoanalysis. --- Women --- Gender identity --- Social sciences and psychoanalysis. --- Psychology --- Age group sociology --- Primary groups --- Developmental psychology --- Sociology of work --- Human physiology --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Depth psychology --- Women - Psychology --- Gender --- Identity --- Voluntary childlessness --- Girls --- Motherhood --- Labour --- Seniors --- Psychoanalysis --- Relationships --- Friendships --- Female body --- Book --- Adolescence

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Today women are lifting weights to build muscle, wrapping their bodies in seaweed to reduce unwanted water retention, attending weigh-ins at diet centers, and devoting themselves to many other types of "body work." Filled with the voices of real women, this book unravels the complicated emotional and intellectual motivations that drive them as they confront American culture's unreachable beauty ideals. This powerful feminist study lucidly and compellingly argues against the idea that the popularity of body work means that women are enslaved to a male-fashioned "beauty myth." Essential reading for understanding current debates on beauty, Body Work demonstrates that women actually use body work to escape that beauty myth. Debra Gimlin focuses on four sites where she conducted in-depth research--a beauty salon, aerobics classes, a plastic surgery clinic, and a social and political organization for overweight women. The honest and provocative interviews included in this book uncover these women's feelings about their bodies, their reasons for attempting to change or come to terms with them, and the reactions of others in their lives. These interviews show that women are redefining their identities through their participation in body work, that they are working on their self-images as much as on their bodies. Plastic surgery, for example, ultimately is an empowering life experience for many women who choose it, while hairstyling becomes an arena for laying claim to professional and social class identities. This book develops a convincing picture of how women use body work to negotiate the relationship between body and self, a process that inevitably involves coming to terms with our bodies' deviation from cultural ideals. One of the few studies that includes empirical evidence of women's own interpretations of body work, this important project is also based firmly in cultural studies, symbolic interactionism, and feminism. With this book, Debra Gimlin adds her voice to those of scholars who are now looking beyond the surface of the beauty myth to the complex reality of women's lives.

Beauty, Personal --- Beauty culture --- Cosmetology --- Beauty shops --- Cosmetics --- Beauty --- Complexion --- Grooming, Personal --- Grooming for women --- Personal beauty --- Personal grooming --- Toilet (Grooming) --- Hygiene --- Social aspects --- Beauty, Personal - Social aspects - United States --- Beauty culture - Social aspects - United States --- alternative healing. --- american beauty standards. --- american beauty. --- american culture. --- beauty standards. --- biographical. --- body building. --- body work. --- cultural studies. --- female beauty. --- female body builder. --- feminism. --- feminist. --- male gaze. --- muscles. --- mythology. --- patriarchy. --- plastic surgery. --- politics. --- strong women. --- true story. --- weight lifting. --- weight. --- womens beauty standards. --- womens beauty.

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Since World War II, when the diet and fitness industries promoted mass obsession with weight and body shape, fat has been a dirty word. In the United States, fat is seen as repulsive, funny, ugly, unclean, obscene, and above all as something to lose. Bodies Out of Bounds challenges these dominant perceptions by examining social representations of the fat body.

Beauty. --- Body image. --- Body image - Social aspects - Miscellanea. --- Discrimination against overweight persons. --- Obesity. --- Obesity-- Social aspects-- Miscellanea. --- Overweight women. --- Overweight women - Social aspects - Miscellanea. --- Physical-appearance-based bias. --- Prejudices. --- Overnutrition --- Overweight --- Perception --- Psychology, Social --- Esthetics --- Nutrition Disorders --- Body Weight --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Mental Processes --- Thinking --- Philosophy --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Signs and Symptoms --- Body Size --- Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Humanities --- Diseases --- Body Weights and Measures --- Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms --- Body Constitution --- Physiological Phenomena --- Physical Examination --- Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures --- Phenomena and Processes --- Diagnosis --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Obesity --- Beauty --- Prejudice --- Body Image --- Psychiatry --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Psychiatric Disorders, Individual --- Body Representation --- Body Schema --- Body Identity --- Body Images --- Body Representations --- Body Schemas --- Identity, Body --- Image, Body --- Representation, Body --- Schema, Body --- Physical Appearance, Body --- Self Concept --- Anti-Semitism --- Implicit Bias --- Islamophobia --- Anti Semitism --- Anti-Semitisms --- Bia, Implicit --- Bias, Implicit --- Islamophobias --- Prejudices --- Obesity Management --- Hyperphagia --- Weight Gain --- Bariatrics --- Antemortem Diagnosis --- Diagnoses and Examinations --- Examinations and Diagnoses --- Postmortem Diagnosis --- Diagnose --- Antemortem Diagnoses --- Diagnoses --- Diagnoses, Antemortem --- Diagnoses, Postmortem --- Diagnosis, Antemortem --- Diagnosis, Postmortem --- Postmortem Diagnoses --- Disease --- Diagnostic Technics and Procedures --- Technics and Procedures, Diagnostic --- Techniques and Procedures, Diagnostic --- Diagnostic Testing --- Testing, Diagnostic --- Sensitivity and Specificity --- Examination, Physical --- Physical Examinations and Diagnoses --- Physical Exam --- Exam, Physical --- Examinations, Physical --- Exams, Physical --- Physical Examinations --- Physical Exams --- Surgical Clearance --- Independent Medical Evaluation --- Physiological Concepts --- Physiological Phenomenon --- Physiological Process --- Physiological Processes --- Concept, Physiological --- Concepts, Physiological --- Phenomena, Physiological --- Phenomenas, Physiological --- Phenomenon, Physiological --- Physiological Concept --- Process, Physiological --- Processes, Physiological --- Body Constitutions --- Constitution, Body --- Constitutions, Body --- Symptoms and General Pathology --- Body Measures --- Body Measure --- Measure, Body --- Measures, Body --- Anthropometry --- Psychologic Processes --- Psychologic Processes and Principles --- Psychological Processes --- Phenomena, Psychological --- Processes, Psychologic --- Processes, Psychological --- Psychological Phenomenas --- Psychological Processe --- Nutritional Physiological Phenomena --- Body Sizes --- Size, Body --- Sizes, Body --- Symptoms and Signs --- Pharmacy Philosophy --- Philosophical Overview --- Hedonism --- Stoicism --- Overview, Philosophical --- Overviews, Philosophical --- Pharmacy Philosophies --- Philosophical Overviews --- Philosophies --- Philosophies, Pharmacy --- Philosophy, Pharmacy --- Critical Thinking --- Thinking Skills --- Thought --- Thinking Skill --- Thinking, Critical --- Thoughts --- Human Information Processing --- Information Processing, Human --- Behavior And Behavior Mechanism --- Body Weights --- Weight, Body --- Weights, Body --- Nutritional Disorders --- Nutrition Disorder --- Nutritional Disorder --- Aesthetics --- Psychology, Perceptual --- Social Psychology --- Perceptual Psychology --- Sensory Processing --- Processing, Sensory --- Sensation --- Hypernutrition --- diagnosis --- methods --- Sociology of culture --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Human physiology --- Images of men --- Male body --- Appearance --- Images of women --- Female body --- Book