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Locker room diaries : the naked truth about women, body image, and re-imagining the "perfect" body /
Often dressed in no more than a towel, author Leslie Goldman spent five years talking with women of all ages, shapes, and sizes about what goes into "shaping" not just their bodies but their body image. From compulsive workouts to daily dates with the scale to body fat measurements, Americ...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Da Capo Press,
2006.
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| Edición: | 1st Da Capo Press ed. |
| Colección: | Lifelong Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Warming up
- Conquering mount toledo : putting the scale in its place
- Booby-trapped : Hallelujah, my nipples have seen the light!
- A waist is a terrible thing to mind : eating disorders exposed
- I scream, you scream, we all scream for-- a $50 bikini wax? : locker room beauty rituals
- Belly dancing : learning about pregnancy straight from the source
- Pimples, crotches, and butts, oh my! : locker room nudity in all its splendor-- and horror
- Cellulite : the bumpy bane of my existence
- A steamy situation : talk, sweat, and tears in the sauna
- Throwing our weight around : plus-sized in the land of thin
- "Me veo gorda en esta ropa?" (Do I look fat in this?) : re-imagining body image : exploring race and ethnicity
- The next generation : body image, locker room mentality, and today's young girls
- Having a senior moment : what lessons can the older generation teach us?
- Epilogue: Smokin' in the girls' room : time to throw in the towel on hating our bodies.