Body Image

With the 1983 death of singer Karen Carpenter from anorexia-induced heart failure, body-image related illnesses such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia gained national attention. Many women’s groups blamed the beauty, fashion, and movie industries for promoting impossibly thin women as the ideal towards which all women should strive. Others criticized the cosmetics industry for sales practices calculated to make women feel insecure about their appearances.

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Warning! Reading this magazine could prove hazardous to your self-esteem.
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Warning! Reading this magazine could prove hazardous to your self-esteem.
Warning! Reading this magazine could prove hazardous to your self-esteem.
Warning! Reading this magazine could prove hazardous to your self-esteem.
Warning! Reading this magazine could prove hazardous to your self-esteem.
Women's Action Coalition (Boston, Mass.)
Women's Action Coalition (Boston, Mass.)
1994
1994
Women's liberation movement
Feminism
Women's health
Body image
Women's liberation movement
Feminism
Women's health
Body image
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http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20247246
Women's liberation movement
Feminism
Women's health
Body image
Warning! Reading this magazine could prove hazardous to your self-esteem.
Warning! Reading this magazine could prove hazardous to your self-esteem.
warning reading this magazine could prove hazardous to your selfesteem
1994/01/01
Warning! Reading this magazine could prove hazardous to your self-esteem.
1994
Women's liberation movement
Women's Action Coalition (Boston, Mass.)
Women's Action Coalition (Boston, Mass.)
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Women's Action Coalition (Boston, Mass.)

Throwing our weight around: a video about fat women's lives
Dwyer, Sandy
Boston Area Fat Liberation

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Throwing our weight around: a video about fat women's lives
Throwing our weight around: a video about fat women's lives
Throwing our weight around: a video about fat women's lives
Throwing our weight around: a video about fat women's lives
Flyer for "Throwing our weight around," a documentary project by Sandy Dwyer to expose the bias against overweight women and the myths around dieting and other weight loss methods.
Boston Area Fat Liberation
Boston Area Fat Liberation
1989
1989
Women's liberation movement
Feminism
Women's health
Weight Loss
Women's liberation movement
Feminism
Women's health
Weight Loss
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Women's liberation movement
Feminism
Women's health
Weight Loss
Throwing our weight around: a video about fat women's lives
Throwing our weight around: a video about fat women's lives
throwing our weight around a video about fat womens lives
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Throwing our weight around: a video about fat women's lives
1989
Women's liberation movement
Dwyer, Sandy
Dwyer, Sandy
Boston Area Fat Liberation
Dwyer, Sandy
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