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

The cultural obsession with women's appearance harms their ability to get ahead and live happy, meaningful lives. Dr. Renee Engeln's book "Beauty Sick" reveals the consequences of this obsession on emotional and physical health, as well as wallets and ambitions. She provides inspiration and workable solutions to help girls and women overcome negative attitudes and embrace their whole selves, to transform their lives, claim the futures they deserve, and change their world.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 400 pages
\n Publication date: 31 May 2018
\n Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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The cultural obsession with women's appearance is an epidemic that harms their ability to get ahead and live happy, meaningful lives. Todays young women face a bewildering set of contradictions when it comes to beauty. They are angry about the media's treatment of women but consume the outlets that belittle them. They mock modern cultures' absurd beauty ideal and make videos exposing Photoshopping tricks, but feel pressured to emulate the same images they criticize by posing with a skinny arm. They understand that what they see isn't real, but still download apps to airbrush their selfies.

Dr. Renee Engeln, whose TEDx talk on beauty sickness has received more than 250,000 views, reveals the shocking consequences of our obsession with girls' appearance on their emotional and physical health, their wallets, and ambitions, including depression, eating disorders, disruptions in cognitive processing, and lost money and time. She makes clear that to truly fulfill their potential, we must break free from cultural forces that feed destructive desires, attitudes, and words, from fat-shaming to denigrating comments.

Beauty Sick is a powerful, eye-opening work in the vein of Peggy Orenstein and Sheryl Sandberg that will blow the top off the body image movement. It is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the impact of our cultural obsession with beauty on women and girls and to create a different world for themselves.

\n Weight: 300g\n
Dimension: 203 x 144 x 25 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780062469786\n \n