Reading and Watching Resources

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