Beauty / Bri Lee.
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TextSeries: Read how you wantPublisher: [Strawberry Hills, N.S.W.] : ReadHowYouWant, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Edition: [Large print edition]Description: vi, 104 pages (large print) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780369329141Subject(s): Lee, Bri | Lee, Bri -- Books and reading | Women -- Psychology | Body image | Body image in women | Leanness -- Psychological aspects | Eating disorders -- Social aspects | Human body -- Social aspects | Beauty, Personal | Beauty, Personal -- Psychological aspects | Beauty, Personal -- Moral and ethical aspects | Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects | Beauty cultureGenre/Form: Large type books. DDC classification: 306.4613 Summary: A powerful meditation on beauty and body image from the author of Eggshell Skull. "You were either fit and trim or you weren't working hard enough. Your body was how you conveyed wealth and status to your peers, it was a personality trait, a symbol of goodness and values: an ethical ideal." In recent decades women have made momentous progress fighting the patriarchy, yet they are held to ever-stricter, more punishing physical standards. Self-worth still plummets and eating disorders are more deadly for how easily they are dismissed. In Beauty Bri Lee explores our obsession with thinness and asks how an intrinsically unattainable standard of physical 'perfection' has become so crucial to so many. What happens if you try to reach that impossible goal? Bri did try, and Beauty is what she learned from that battle: a gripping and intelligent rejection of an ideal that diminishes us all.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Large Print | 306 .4613 LEE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111089564890 |
Standard print edition originally published: Allen & Unwin, 2019.
Copyright from the original book.
Optimized reading formats.
Set in 16 point Verdana.
Includes bibliographical references.
A powerful meditation on beauty and body image from the author of Eggshell Skull. "You were either fit and trim or you weren't working hard enough. Your body was how you conveyed wealth and status to your peers, it was a personality trait, a symbol of goodness and values: an ethical ideal." In recent decades women have made momentous progress fighting the patriarchy, yet they are held to ever-stricter, more punishing physical standards. Self-worth still plummets and eating disorders are more deadly for how easily they are dismissed. In Beauty Bri Lee explores our obsession with thinness and asks how an intrinsically unattainable standard of physical 'perfection' has become so crucial to so many. What happens if you try to reach that impossible goal? Bri did try, and Beauty is what she learned from that battle: a gripping and intelligent rejection of an ideal that diminishes us all.
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