BOOKS: The following are book suggestions on a variety of topics related to women's body image, the media, and beauty ideals.  They are listed alphabetically by title. New books are added to the end of the list each year.

• Adios, Barbie: Young Women Write About Body Image and Identity (Live Girls) -Ophira Edut
• Am I thin enough yet?: The Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity  -Sharlene Hesse-Biber 
• Barbie Unbound: A Parody of the Barbie Obsession -Sarah Strohmeyer
• Body Image: A Handbook of Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice -Thomas F., Phd Cash and Thomas, Phd Pruzinsky
• Body Image: Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men, Women, and Children- Sarah Grogan, Routledge
• Bodylove: Learning to Like Our Looks and Ourselves : A Practical Guide for Women-  Rita Freedman
• Body Outlaws: Young Women Write About Body Image and Identity- Ophira Edut & Rebecca Walker
• Body Stories: Research & Intimate Narratives on Women Transforming Body Image In Outdoor Adventure - Lisa West-Smith
• Body Wars-  Margo Maine 
• Body Work: The Social Construction Of Women's Body Image (Women and Psychology)- SK Blood
• Consumer Boycotts: Effecting Change Through the Marketplace and the Media Monroe -Friedman
• Closing the Leadership Gap- Marie Wilson
• Deadly Persuasion : Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising - Jean Kilbourne
• Eating Disorders - Mona Villapiano & Laura J. Goodman
• Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship With Food Through Myths, Metaphors & Storytelling- Anita A. Johnston 
• Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West -Peter N. Stearns - A 20th century look at the mixed messages given to women
• Fat Is A Feminist Issue I and II - Susie Orbach. Discusses relationship between emotions and  eating habits, body image and our preoccupation with size. 
• Looking Good: College Women and Body Image, 1875-1930 -Margaret A. Lowe
• Losing It ? America's Obsession with Weight And The Industry That Feeds On It -
  Laura Fraser. 
• Model:The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women - Michael Gross
• No Fat Chicks: How Big Business Profits Making Women Hate Their Bodies-How to Fight Back -Terry Poulton
• Political Virtue and Shopping : Individuals, Consumerism, and Collective Action- Michele Micheletti
• Real Gorgeous: The Truth About Body and Beauty - Kaz Cooke
• Reviving Ophelia : Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls -Mary Pipher
• Self-Esteem Tools for Recovery -Lindsey Hall & Leigh Cohn
• Social Change for Women and Children (Advances in Gender Research) -V. Demos, M.T. Sega
• The Beauty Myth : How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women Naomi Wolf 
• The Body Image Workbook: An 8-Step Program for Learning to Like Your Looks - Thomas F. Cash
• The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls- Joan Jacobs Brumberg
• The Hungry Self : Women, Eating and Identity- Kim Chernin
• The Political Consequences of Being a Woman: How Stereotypes Influence the Conduct and Consequences of Political Campaigns - Kim Kahn
• Transforming Body Image,  Marcia G. Hutchinson
• 200 Ways to Love the Body You Have - Marcia G. Hutchinson
• Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body- Susan Bordo
• Violence against Women : The Bloody Footprints (A Gender & Society Reader) - Pauline B. Bart  and Eileen Geil Moran
• Wanting To Be Her: Body Image Secrets Victoria Won't Tell You-  Michelle Graham
• When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies - Jane R. Hirschmann & Carol H. Munter
• Where The Girls Are -by Susan Douglas. 50 years of women in the media. 
• Women, Philanthropy, And Social Change: Visions For A Just Society (Civil Society Series) - Elayne Clift        

 New Books added 2010

•  Media and Youth: A Developmental Perspective (Paperback)~ Steven J. Kirsh 2010

• Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism (Hardcover)~ Alison Piepmeier 

• Self-Esteem Across the Lifespan: Issues and Interventions Mary Guindon 2010

• Feminism, Inc.: Coming of Age in Girl Power Media Culture ~ Emilie Zaslow  (2009)

• Violent Video Game Effects on Children and Adolescents: Theory, Research, and Public Policy~ Craig A. Anderson Douglas A. Gentile Katherine E. Buckley  (2007)

• It's Not The Media: The Truth About Pop Culture's Influence On Children 2003~ Karen Sternheimer

 

ESSAYS :  Food for thought. WAMPOW does not specifically endorse these author's views.  These essays are offered as resources and thought provoking content only.

• http://www.quietmountainessays.org/Onyejekwe.html  - Advertising and the Exploitation of Female Sexuality by Chineze J. Onyejekwe, PhD; Sociologist
• http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~taflinge/sex.html  - Taking ADvantage
  You and Me, Babe: Sex and Advertising by Richard F. Taflinger, PhD
• http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/biology/b103/f02/web2/hprice.html - Sex and Advertising: An "Organic" Experience, Heather Price
• http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article40.html - Beauty...and the Beast of Advertising, By Jean Kilbourne
• http://www.asc.upenn.edu/courses/comm334/Docs/femads.pdf - Madison Avenue versus The Feminine Mystique: How the Advertising Industry Responded to the Onset of the Modern Women's Movement - Steve Craig

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