When I saw the photo below, of a young woman circa 1870 looking at herself in the mirror, it made me think of a passage in Joan Jacob Brumberg's book ...
I've felt like the white rag on a tug-of-war rope. My body will never fit the spicy image of a Hispanic Amazon; it will never be naturally slim and naturally curvaceous. It will just be. It is my body. And I'm glad.
Here's an excerpt from Episode 151, a revealing conversation with Lesley Arfin, a staff writer on the first two seasons of the hit television show Girls, starring Lena Dunham, as well as the MTV series Awkward.
It is generally assumed that being bombarded with images of skinny, flawless supermodels and celebrities makes most women feel bad about themselves (o...
Given the average boob job costs between $3,000 and $4,000, couldn't we find better ways to spend that money? Maybe spend it on something that will actually improve our well-being long term?
SPECIAL FROM Next Avenue By Donna Sapolin Carrie Underwood and the 2013 Grammy contenders cast a light on whether to reveal or cover up. I’m a...
Growing up in show business, it was hard not to compare myself to all of those perfect movie stars. Luckily, my parents helped me develop a good body ...
Photographer Yossi Loloi must have taken a hint from Lucian Freud and Peter Paul Rubens when he took photos challenging the traditional image of the n...
Not every playwright wants their work to start a movement. That's where Eve Ensler differs. Therefore, it is not surprising that Ensler's new theatrical endeavor, Emotional Creature, would take on issues faced by girls across the world.
By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 11/05/2012 02:18 PM EST on LiveScience Women, beware: Your friends' chatter could inf...
Time has inexorably pushed me down, out... and across that amorphous line where a woman goes from being prey to being invisible. Never again will a construction worker yell at me to show him my tits, no matter how drunk he is. You wouldn't think I would miss that.
A couple of weeks ago we put out a call asking readers to submit photos of a part of the body many women spend hours trying to fix or change: their th...
What if we measured our own success by whether we make life better or more difficult for all types of women, everywhere?
Men didn't want sex with skinny women, they wanted sex with women.
Haven't we learned our lesson from every sci-fi movie ever that sexy robots are never our friends? We all know that glossy magazine models are hea...
Teen girls aspiring to look like their favorite celebrity or women starving themselves for weeks trying to fit into their favorite dress are the stere...
Jennifer Lawrence's body -- her perfectly lovely, slender-but-not-rail-thin, able body -- is presenting more complications than it rightfully should. ...
I'm in love with Pinterest the new hot social network where images are digital coke -- addictive, unlimited pleasure with just a few side effects -- l...
Life is too short for bad sex. We need to stop fearing our bodies and start learning about them. We all deserve three unalienable rights: life, liberty and the pursuit of sexual pleasure.
I feel attacked. I am mentally under siege by the constant mention of plastic surgery in the media. I can't help but ask -- why are we now bombarded by articles of who's had work done or the newest procedure?
My body and I have a long history together and it wasn't until recently that I recognized the true friendship and loyalty she has unrelentingly given me.
A new study finds that women over 40 are rarely used in editorial and advertising images, even in magazine like Vogue with one-fifth of its readership...
I'm not a therapist, and I'm not a parenting expert. I'm a big sister to thousands of girls who have opened up the vault and opened up to me with questions they're not comfortable posing to anyone else.
Black Swan uses ballet as a vehicle to make the topic of gender performance more tangible to us. The psychological horrors presented in the film are very real in our world, though not necessarily as pronounced.
The goal for writing, "Shut Up, Skinny Bitches" was to help lead readers toward a more delicious new way of thinking about themselves and the food they consume.
