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Women's Digital Knowledge Library
Body Image Collection
Resources about body image, body diversity, beauty standards, fat studies, fat acceptance.
The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies
The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies is a key reference work in contemporary scholarship situated at the intersection between Gender and Fat Studies, charting the connections and tensions between these two fields.
Feminine Persuasion
Marking 50 years since the publication of noted sexologist Alfred Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, Feminine Persuasion: Art and Essays on Sexuality celebrates the diverse and multifaceted expressions of women’s sexuality that have emerged since Kinsey’s study heralded a new era.
Lose Hate Not Weight
Virgie Tovar, fat activist and recovering dieter, advocates hate loss over weight loss.
Pregnancy and body image
You can learn ways to cope with feelings about your body’s changes during and after pregnancy.
Fat Lib Archive
This archive is an offering. A collection of the fat liberation cultural and organizing history we have access to.
Fat phobia and its racist past and present
Where does our preference for thinness really come from? As Sabrina Strings explains in her book, Fearing the Black Body, the answer is much more complicated than health or aesthetics.
Diet culture is everywhere. Here’s how to fight it
A podcast on diet culture.
What Is Body Positivity?
Article on body positivity and how to practice it.
Here’s What Fat Acceptance Is – and Isn’t
Sizeism is everywhere in our culture, from the workplace to the playground. It’s time to change that.
National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance
Working to end fatphobia.
Oxford Academic Fat Studies
Research about fatness and intersectionality.
UC Berkely University Health Services
Resources about weight based discrimination.
Beauty Standards
Beauty standards stem from evolution and change over time as is demonstrated with this website.
Body Dissatisfaction, Self-Objectification, and Ideal Body Size Among Alaska Native Women
Study on how Alaska Native women’s body image may promote positive social change by providing a new cultural perspective on body dissatisfaction.
Cultural Differences in Body Image: A Systematic Review
This paper focuses on the effects of culture on body image.
Body image as a global mental health concern
This paper reviews the theoretical frameworks that account for the global similarities and regional differences in rates and presentation of body image concerns.
Black Women’s Lived Experiences of Body Image
The October 2022 Carter Series Lecture features Speaker Sophia Choukas-Bradley presenting “Black Women’s Lived Experiences of Body Image.”
Body Image, Disordered Eating, and Self-Esteem in Black Women
The purpose of this study is to understand the effect that the racial composition of Black women’s academic and social networks have on their body image, disordered eating, and self-esteem, when controlling for ethnic centrality.
Racialized body dissatisfaction in Black women: Development of the Black feminist model of body image
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of the racialized beauty aesthetic in Black women’s body image.
