Here are some magazines, movies, and books !
Feel free to add your own suggestions!
Books:
- I AM Beautiful: A Celebration of Women by Dana Carpenter and Woody Winfree
- Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul by Patricia Foster
- Transforming Body Image: Loving the Body You Have by Marcia Germaine Hutchinson
- 200 Ways to Love the Body You Have by Marcia Germaine Hutchinson
- I Am Becoming the Woman I’ve Wanted by Sandra Halderman Martz
- Mass Market Woman by Linda McBryde
- Fat!So? Because You Dont Have to Apologize for Your Size by Marilyn Wann
- Self-Esteem Comes In All Sizes by Carol A Johnson
- Body Wars: Making Peace with Women’s Bodies by Margo Maine
- Body Prayers: Finding Body Peace by Rebecca Ruggles Radcliffe
- True Beauty by Emme and Daniel Paisner
- Beyond Beauty by Jane Pratt, Antoinette White and Alexandra Arrowsmith
- Sister Feelgood: A Year of Health and Fitness for Our Bodies and Souls by Donna Marie Williams
- The Beauty of Myth by Naomi Wolf
- Deadly Persuasions by Jean Kilborne
- Wake Up! I’m Fat by Camryn Manheim
- A Waist is a Terrible Thing to Mind by Jan Phillips and Cathy Conheim
- Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher
- Big Big Love: A Sourcebook on Sex for People of All Sizes and Those Who Love them by Hanna Blank
- Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body by Susan Bordo
- The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg
- Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa
- Hair Story: Untangling the ROots of Black Hair in America by Ayanna D. Byrd and Lori L. Tharps
- Women En Large: Images of Fat Nudes by Laurie Toby Edison and Debbie Notkin
- Body Outlaws: Young Women Write about Body Image and Identity by Ophira Edut and Rebecca Walker
- The Good Body by Eve Ensler
- Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty by Nancy Etcoff
- Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic by Sander L. Gilman
- Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
- Black Looks: Race and Representation by bell hooks
- What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology by Donna Jarrell and Ira Sukrungruang
- Cant By Me Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Thinkand Feel by Joan Kilborne
- Appetites: Why Women Want by Caroline Knapp
- Cunt: A Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio
- Yell-Oh Girls! Emerging Voices Explore Culture, identity, and Growing Up Asian American by Vickie Nam
- Hope In A Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture by Kathy Peiss
- Hunger Pains: The Modern Woman’s Tragic Quest for Thinness by Mary Pipher
- Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West by Peter Steams
- Sex, Lies, and Advertising by Gloria Steinem
- Preventing Eating Disorders: A Handbook of Interventions and Special Challenges by Catherine Steiner-Adair, Niva Piran, and Michael P. Levine
- No Fat Chicks: How Big Business Profits Making Women Hate Their Bodies by Terry Poulton
- Feminity by Susan Brownmiller
- Losing it? America’s Obsession with Weight and The Industry that Feeds On It by Lura Fraser
- Feminist Perspectives on Eating Disorders by P. Fallon, S. Wooley, and M. Katzman
- Body Traps by Judith Rodin
- Were the Girls Are by Susan Douglas
- Fat is a Feminist Issue I and II by Susie Orbach
- Hunger Strike by Susie Orbach
- Real Gorgeous by Kaz-Cooke
- The Invisible Woman by W. Charisse Goodman
- Consuming Passions by C. Brown and K. Jasper
- A Hunger So Wide and So Deep by Becky Thompson
- Am I Think Enough by Sharlene Hesse-Biber
- Feeding the Hungry Heart by Geneen Roth
- The Hungry Self by Kim Chemin
- Delta Style: Eve wasnt a Size 6 and Neither am I by Delta Burke and Alexis Lipsitzlist
- Appearance Obsession by Joni Johnston
- Nothing to Lose by Cheri Erdman
- Full Lives by Lindsey Hall
- Shadow on a Tight Rope by L Schoenfielder and B. Wieser
- Overcoming Fear of Fat by L. Brown and E. Rothblum
- When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies by J. Hirschmann and C. Munter
- Making Peace with Food by Susan Kano
- Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdon by Christiane Northrup
- Body and Soul: The Black Women’s guide to Physical Health and Well-being by Linda Villarosa
- Salud: A Latina’s Guide to Total Health by Jane L. Delgado
- Yentl’s Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism by Danya Ruttenberg
- Kiss My Tiara: How to Rule the World as a Smart Mouth Goddess by Susane Jane Gilman
- For Women Only!: your Guide to Health and Empowerment by Gary Null and Barbara Seaman
- Barbie Unbound: A Parody of Barbie Obsession by Sarah Strhmeyer and Geoff Hansen
- The New Good Vibrations Guide to Sex by Cathy Winks and Anne Semans
- When the Earth Moves: Women and the Orgasm by Mikaya Heart
- Whatever it Takes: Women on Women’s Sports by Joli Sandoz and Jobi Winans
- Body Makers: A Cultural Anatomy of Women’s Body Building by Leslie Heyword
- Pretty Good for A Girl by Leslie Heywood
- Hope, Help and Healing for Eating Disorders by Gregory Jantz
- Talking to Eating Disorders: Simple Ways to Support Someone Who Has Anorexia, Bulimia, or Other Eating Disorders by Heaton and Strauss
- When Food Is Love by Geneen Roth
- Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared her Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too by Jenni Schaefer
- It’s Not About Food by Carol Normandi and Laurelee Roark
- When Dieting Becomes Dangerous by Deborah Michel and Susan G. Willard
- Healing the Scars of Emotional Abuse by Gregory L. Jantz
- Words of Truth and Hope for Eating Disorders by Gregory L. Jantz
- Body Love by Rita Freedman
- Live Large by Cheri Erdman, Tami Brannon-Quan and Lisa Licaboli
- Love Your Body by Ellen Frankel
- Beyond Measure by Ellen Frankel
- The Body Myth by Margo Maine
- The Broken Mirror
- Feeling Good About the Way You Look by Sabine Wilhelm
- Body Betrayed by Kathryn J. Zerbe, B. Timothy Walsh, and Carrie Arnold
- Next to Nothing Johanna Marie McShane and Tony Paulson
- Why She Feels Fat
- Unlcoking the Mysteris of Eating Disorders by David B. Herzog
- Anatomy of a Food Addiction: The Brain Chemistry of Over Eating by Anne Katherine
- The Eating Disorder Sourcebook
- A Starving Madness: Tales of Hunger, Hope and Healing in Psychotherapy by Judith Ruskay Rabinor
- The Strength To Resist: The Media’s Impact on Women and Girls
Magazines
- Bitch (http://www.bitchmagazine.com)
- Bust (http://www.bustmagazine.com)
- Ms. Magazine (http://www.msmagazine.com)
- New Moon Magazine (http://www.newmoon.org)
Movies
- Connie and Carla
- Circle of Friends
- Girl Fight
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
- In Her Shoes
- Real Women Have Curves
- Girl, Interupted
- Lbs.
- Million Dollar Baby
- Mean Girls
- Shallow Hal
- Fried Green Tomatoes
- Bridget Jone’s Diary
- Boys Dont Cry
- Transamerica
- Spanglish
- Drop Dead Gorgeous
- Now and Then
- Never Been Kissed