Beauty Mark
How do our families influence our relationship with our own bodies? How do American pop culture's standards of beauty get inside our hearts and heads? In what ways can sport and the drive for fitness actually make us sick rather than healthy? In thi...
Prescribing Beauty
What does it mean to be beautiful, to be ugly? Is ugliness a disease that must be “cured” with high-tech surgery and chemical injections? Prescribing Beauty explores compelling questions about physical attractiveness, examining how facial featur...
Recovering Bodies
Recovering Bodies features college students on the subject of eating disorders. They share their stories and experiences about the wide range of pressures that can lead to disordered eating, while providing valuable personal insights into the varie...
Body dysmorphic disorder
BDD, as it is called, afflicts people by causing them to become obsessed with the idea that they must drastically and constantly alter their appearance. Two apparently normal, attractive women discuss their experiences with BDD. An expert attempts t...
Brand New You: Makeover Television and the American Dream
What do popular television makeover programs like What Not to Wear, The Biggest Loser, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and The Swan tell us about how to look and feel? What do they tell us about what a good life looks like in contemporary America? T...