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The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
Joan Jacobs Brumberg
ISBN 13: 9780679735298
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Softcover
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"Timely and sympathetic . . . a work of impassioned advocacy."--People A hundred years ago, women were lacing themselves into corsets and teaching their daughters to do the same. The ideal of the day, however, was inner beauty: a focus on good deeds and a pure heart. Today American women have more social choices and personal freedom than ever before. But fifty-three percent of our girls are dissatisfied with their bodies by the age of thirteen, and many begin a pattern of weight obsession and dieting as early as eight or nine. Why? In The Body Project, historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg answers this question, drawing on diary excerpts and media images from 1830 to the present. Tracing girls attitudes toward topics ranging from breast size and menstruation to hair, clothing, and cosmetics, she exposes the shift from the Victorian concern with inner beauty to our modern focus on outward appearance--in particular, the desire to be model-thin and sexy. Compassionate, insightful, and gracefully written, The Body Project explores the gains and losses adolescent girls have inherited since they shed the corset and the ideal of virginity for a new world of sexual freedom and consumerism--a world in which the body is their primary project.
"Joan Brumbergs book offers us an insightful and entertaining history behind the destructive mantra of the 90s--I hate my body!'" --Katie Couric
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"The voices emerging from these diaries provide a poignant, realistic, and often funny framework for Brumberg to explore changes in girlhood. 'The Body Project' is a book to read with pen in hand in order to scribble down the margins."
Gloria Steinem
Review:"Much of 'The Body Project' is opinion presented as fact....The book is haphazard in its documentation...[and]... Finally, 'The Body Project' ends up insulting the very group it seeks to support."
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