Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women by Renee Engeln

Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women

Renee Engeln

400 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction feminism psychology self help informative reflective medium-paced
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Today's young women face a bewildering set of contradictions when it comes to beauty. They don't want to be Barbie dolls, but still feel they must look like Barbie dolls. They're angry about how women are treated by the media, but they readily con...

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