The Body Snatchers - How the Media Shapes Women (Paperback, illustrated edition)

This timely analysis reveals how the media promotes unhealthy, unrealistic, and unattainable images of the female body. Encouraging women of all ages to challenge society's preoccupation with an ideal body shape, this uplifting guide helps combat the low self-esteem, body hatred, and eating disorders that afflict too many women and girls. Asserting that the cosmetics, fashion, and diet industries, the mass media, and the burgeoning business of cosmetic surgery all profit from the perfect body myth, the book theorizes that these forces would be powerless if women's dissatifaction with the way they look ended. The book presents witty alternatives to starvation imagery alongside solutions that will empower woman to step off the starvation treadmill and enjoy life no matter what their size.