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It must be beautiful to be finished : a memoir of my body / by Gies, Kate,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."When Kate Gies was four years old, a plastic surgeon pressed a synthetic ear to the right side of her head and pulled out a mirror. He told her he could make her "whole" -- could make her "right" -- and she believed him. From the age of four to thirteen, she underwent fourteen surgeries, including skin and bone grafts, to craft the appearance of an outer ear. Many of the surgeries failed, leaving permanent damage to her body. In short, lyrical vignettes, Kate writes about how her "disfigured" body was scrutinized, pathologized, and even weaponized. She describes the physical and psychic trauma of medical intervention, and its effects on her sense of self, first as a child needing to be fixed, and later, as a teenager and adult, navigating the complex expectations and dangers of being a woman. It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished is the story of a girl desperately trying to have a body that makes her acceptable and of a woman learning to own a body she never felt was hers to define. In an age of speaking out about the abuse of marginalized bodies, this memoir takes a hard look at the medical system's role in body oppression and trauma"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Gies, Kate.; Gies, Kate; Gies, Kate; Aesthetics; Body image; Ear, External; Body image;
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Dear body : what I lost, what I gained, and what I learned along the way / by Williams, Brittany,1989-author.;
"The inspiring story of how one woman overcame her struggle with obesity by healing childhood trauma and confronting her innermost demons"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Williams, Brittany, 1989-; Body image.; Obesity in women; Overweight women;
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Unapologetic eating : make peace with food and transform your life / by Rumsey, Alissa,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Teaches how using a relatable four-step approach, you can reconnect with your body using your relationship with food as the entry point.
Subjects: Weight loss; Weight loss; Body image.; Self-care, Health.; Diet; Food habits;
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Beautiful girl : celebrating the wonders of your body / by Northrup, Christiane.; Tracy, Kristina.; Blanz, Aurélie.;
Presents this simple but important message: that to be born female is a very special thing and carries with it magical gifts and powers that must be recognized and nurtured. Dr. Northrup believes that helping girls learn at a young age to value the wonder and uniqueness of their bodies can have positive benefits that will last throughout their lives. By reading this lovely book, little girls will learn how their bodies are perfect just the way they are, the importance of treating themselves with gentle care, and how changes are just a part of growing up.LSC
Subjects: Body image in girls; Self-esteem in children; Self-perception in children; Body image in women; Self-esteem in women; Self-perception in women; Girls;
© 2013., Hay House,
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The substance [videorecording] / by Fargeat, Coralie,film producer,screenwriter,film director.; Moore, Demi,actor.; Quaid, Dennis,actor.; Qualley, Margaret,actor.; MUBI (Firm),film distributor.;
Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, Gore Abrams, Edward Hamilton-Clark."Elisabeth Sparkle, a former A-lister, is past her prime and suddenly fired from her fitness TV show by repellent studio head Harvey. She is then drawn to the opportunity presented by a mysterious new drug: the Substance. All it takes is one injection and she is reborn-- temporarily--as the gorgeous, twenty-something Sue"-Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.MPAA rating: R.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Horror films.; Feature films.; Body image; Drugs; Aging; Middle-aged women; Man-woman relationships; Medicine, Experimental;
For private home use only.
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What's eating us : women, food, and the epidemic of body anxiety / by Kazdin, Cole,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Blending personal narrative and investigative reporting, Emmy Award-winning journalist Cole Kazdin reveals that disordered eating is an epidemic crisis killing millions of women. Women of all ages struggle with disordered eating, preoccupation with food, and body anxiety. Journalist Cole Kazdin was one such woman, and she set out to see if the impossibility of her own full recovery from an eating disorder was all in her head. Interviewing women across the country as well as the world's most renowned researchers, she discovered that most people with eating disorders never receive treatment--the fact that she did made her one of the lucky ones. Kazdin takes us to the doorstep of the diet industry and research community, exposing the flawed systems that claim to be helping us, and revealing disordered eating for the crisis that it is: a mental illness with the second highest mortality rate (after opioid-related deaths) that no one wants to talk about. Along the way, she identifies new treatments not yet available to the general public, grass roots movements to correct racial disparities in care, and strategies for navigating true health while still living in a dysfunctional world. What would it feel like to be free? To feel gorgeous in your body, not ruminate about food, feel ease at meals, exercise with no regard for calories-burned? To never making a disparaging comment about your body again, even silently to yourself. Who can help us with this? We can. What's Eating Us is an urgent battle cry coupled with stories and strategies about what works and how to finally heal-for real"--
Subjects: Kazdin, Cole; Body image in women; Eating disorders in women; Women;
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Under our clothes : our first talk about our bodies / by Roberts, Jillian,1971-; Heinrichs, Jane,1982-;
Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses.Introduces the topics of bodies, body safety and body image.LSC
Subjects: Human body; Body image; Child sexual abuse; Child abuse;
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Let's just say it wasn't pretty / by Keaton, Diane.;
Subjects: Keaton, Diane.; Beauty, Personal.; Body image in women.; Motion picture actors and actresses;
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Everything and nothing at all : essays / by Wills, Jenny Heijun,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."From Hilary Weston Prize-winning author Jenny Heijun Wills comes a new collection of piercing, breathtaking essays on beauty, identity, and language -- as well as the grey zones that exist between and within these notions of self. As an adoptee, Jenny Heijun Wills has spent her life navigating the spaces of race and ethnicity. As a polyamorous, pansexual femme, she occupies a liminality between family -- adopted, biological, chosen -- and "freedom;" queerness and heteronormativity; monogamy and a constellation of love. As a person who self-harms to cope with mental illness, she moves between the desire to be beautiful and the urge to make herself ugly, preening in the limelight while daily wishing her body would disappear. And as a parent with a lifelong eating disorder, her love language is to feed, but she finds it near-impossible to consume anything herself. These facets of Jenny's personhood have served as both the anchors she has clung to, in the time before self-discovery and understanding, and the harsh parameters of what others now imagine she can be. Everything and Nothing At All weaves together literary criticism, cultural context, and personal history into a staggering tapestry of knowledge. Yet Jenny is acutely aware of the cost of this knowledge: the more she uncovers, the more parts of herself she must reconcile. And though she is guided by those who came before -- her Korean grandmother, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, even Emily Brontë, when read with intention -- and the lovers she has sewn into her life, they cannot shield her from the combined weight of this knowledge. It feels at once like everything she has been seeking in order to set herself free, and that which threatens to extinguish her, one day, into nothing at all. Devastating, illuminating, and beautifully crafted, these essays breathe life into the ambiguities and excesses of Jenny's life, where she lingers always at the intersections within the intersections of identity."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Essays.; Personal narratives.; Wills, Jenny Heijun.; Body image.; Pansexual people; Self-perception.; Authors, Canadian (English);
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Food school [graphic novel] / by Armstrong, Jade,author,illustrator.;
Olive, a twenty-something college dropout, enrols in a full-time outpatient program for eating disorder recovery where they learn, talk, and cry about eating disorders as part of a survivor support group. Intensely committed to recovery, Olive confronts the secretive, self-destructive, and sometimes tragically comedic nature of their illness, while struggling with the complexities of modern mental health care. With support and perspective from their roommate, a fellow patient, and their partner, Olive learns to open up about their abusive relationship with food and exercise and finds ways to cope with the reality of living in a society that actively encourages disordered eating.
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Slice-of-life comics.; Young women; Body image; Eating disorders; Self-esteem;
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