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Body Image (Negative/Poor)

By Psychology Today

What do you think you look like? Body image is the mental representation an individual creates of themselves, but it may or may not bear any relation to how one actually appears.

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How One Woman with a Disability Learned to Love Her Body Through Dancing | Today Original

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Disability and Body Image

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TEDxMIA - Shelley Baer - The Beauty of Disability

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Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as “diseased” and a burden on the public health care system.

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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

In 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful entrance into the national conversation on race. In a media landscape dominated by racially biased images of welfare queens and crack babies, Killing the Black Body exposed America’s systemic abuse of Black women’s bodies.

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Asian American Women Share Struggles With Beauty Standards

For most women, the pressure to be "beautiful" is difficult, but Asian American women face a unique challenge.

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The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

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