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Mainstream culture is so fixated on dieting that many rights activists shun the topic. But when a woman is trying to lose weight, she needs protection from self-hatred and dangerous dieting. She needs feminism.
An unexpected part in the musical “Gypsy” triggered performance artist Stephanie Howell’s love of her body and shaped her career, she says in this excerpt of her essay in the anthology “Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction.”
Her most daring and transgressive act occurred on the elliptical machine and helped showcase her newfound confidence, writes Emily Anderson in this essay in the anthology “Hot and Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion.”
New Year’s resolutions put weight loss at the top of many to-do lists. But that doesn’t mean more people should be seriously thinking about bariatric surgery, say critics of a recent FDA advisory ruling on the weight-loss implant.
Investigative journalists with TV station KHOU-Houston started with a tip about Texas National Guard officers publicly degrading a lower-ranking woman. That led to a wider story of abuse that has earned numerous national awards.
The fashion industry was rocked last week by Spain’s decision to ban underweight models from Madrid runways in an effort to promote healthy body weights. Advocates praised the move as a positive attempt to stem the rise in eating disorders.
As body image activists plan to celebrate International Size Acceptance Day next week, obesity among American women has hit record levels.
Beauty pageants continue to promote thin beauty–now misleadingly spun as “fitness”–and they are propagating the thin ideal to developing countries.