The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
by Joan Jacobs Brumberg
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Author: Joan Jacobs BrumbergEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1998-09-01
ISBN: 0679735291
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: Required reading for revivers of Ophelia
Summary: 5 Stars
The Body Project is a splendid expansion of a theme of Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia: the valuing of the adolescent girl by herself, peers, and the popular media for her physical appearance and resulting early sexual activity. Brumberg makes her points compelling and bone-true by illustrations from the diaries of girls themselves, diaries culled from recent years and as far back as the Victorians. It is a surprise to learn that even the teenaged Victoria Herself was dissatisfied with her body (she thought her hands were too big.) As the author suggests, it should be read and discussed by both girls and the adults who care about them. Let's all of us who love and are concerned with adolescent girls buy this book and pass it around until it disintegrates in tatters while we try to help them understand and deal with their world's physical obsession.
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