Beauty sick: Book review
Name: Beauty sick; How cultural obsession with appearance hurts women and girls. Author: Renee Englen, Award-winning professor of psychology at Northwestern university, PhD. Publisher: Harper Collins Pages: 281 The book is divided into 5 sections, each of which contains more sub-sections. Women around the world confront unattainable and ludicrous beauty standards, determined by cultural norms and preferences, every day. The criteria to be met is unreachable. Because we cannot modify every single body part of ours to look like that model whose picture is photoshopped and air-brushed to finally fulfill the criteria of the vogue cover page. Irrelevant of this, if we strive, we are most likely to contract the most perilous of diseases: Beauty sickness. In the words of Renee, beauty sickness is what happens when women’s emotional energy gets so bound up with what they see in the mirror that it becomes harder for them to see other aspects of ...