Books and Movies
The Adonis Complex: The Secret Crisis of Male Body Obsession. Harrison Pope, Katherine Philips, and Roberto Olivardia.
The Beauty Myth. Naomi Wolf.
Beauty Secrets: Women and the Politics of Appearance. Wendy Chapkins.
Bisexual Women in the Twenty-first Century. Dawn Atkins.
Body Image, Eating Disorders, and Obesity in Youth: Assessment, Prevention, and Treatment. Linda Smolak.
Body Image: Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men, Women, and Children. Sarah Grogan.
The Body Image Workshop: An Eight-Step Program for Learning to Like Your Looks. Thomas Cash.
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. Joan Jacobs Brumberg.
Boys Get Anorexia Too: Coping with Male Eating Disorders in the Family. Jenny Langley.
Can’t Buy Me Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel. Jean Kilbourne.
Eating Disorders: Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge Eating. Kathlyn Gay.
Fasting Girls: History of Anorexia Nervosa. Joan Jacobs Brumberg.
Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West. Peter Stearns.
Fat Girl: A True Story. Judith Moore.
Gay Men Living with Chronic Illnesses and Disabilities: From Crisis to Crossroads. Benjamin Lipton.
GenderQueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary. Joan Nestle, Clare Howell, and Riki Anne Wilchins.
Intersex in the Age of Ethics. Alice Domurat Dreger.
The Invisible Man: A Self-Help Guide for Men with Eating Disorders, Compulsive Exercise, and Bigorexia. John Morgan.
Lesbians, Levis, and Lipstick: The Meaning of Beauty in our Lives. Jeanine Cogan and Joanie Erickson.
Looking Queer: Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgendered Communities. Dawn Atkins.
The Masque of Femininity: The Presentation of Women in Everyday Life. Efrat Tseelon.
The Media and Body Image: If Looks Could Kill. Maggie Wykes, Barrie Gunter.
The Muscular Ideal: Psychological, Social and Medical Perspectives. J. Kevin Thompson and Guy Cafri.
Obsession: A Study of Male Body Obsession in the USA. David Metcalfe.
The Riddle of Gender. Deborah Rudacille.
Skinny Boy: A Young Man’s Battle and Triumph Over Anorexia. Gary Grahl.
Social Rage: Emotion and Cultural Conflict. Bonnie Berry.
Straight Acting: Gay Men, Masculinity, and Finding True Love. Angelo Pezzote.
TransForming Gender: Transgender Practices of Identity, Intimacy, and Care. Sally Hines.
Women and Bisexuality: A Global Perspective. Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio.
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. Susan Bordo.
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Movies Related to Body Image
65 RedRoses (2009)
A Slim Peace (2007)
A Question of Beauty (2010)
Asian American Beauty-Female Body Image (2007)
Body Art (2001)
Body Image: Let’s Get Real
Body Typed: 3 Short Films on Media and Physical Perfection (2008)
Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
Calendar Girls (2003)
Center Stage (1999)
Colour of Beauty (2010)
Cover Girl Culture: Awakening the Media Generation (2010)
Disfigured (2007)
Do I Look Fat?: A Documentary on Gay Men, Body Image, and Eating Disorders (2005)
Drop Dead Diva (2009)
Ebony Chunky Love, B*tch Can’t Get a Date! (2006)
Extreme Bodies (2008)
Flesh and Blood (2007)
Frontrunners (2008)
FUEL: Skin Deep (2009)
Hairspray (1988)
I Feel So Ugly: Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Jessica Simpson’s The Price of Beauty (2010)
Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising’s Image of Women (2010)
Miss Representation (2011)
Modify (2005)
My Flesh and Blood (2003)
My Left Foot (1989)
Nobody’s Perfect (2008)
Penelope (2006)
Picture Perfect (2007)
Pumpkin (2002)
Real Women Have Curves (2002)
Skin (2008)
Skinnyfat (2010)
Slim Hopes: Advertising and the Obsession with Thinness (1995)
Still Black (2008)
Super Size Me (2004)
Teen Truth: An Inside Look at Body Image
The Mirror In My Mind: Body Image and Self-Esteem (2002)
The Story of Furious Pete (2010)
The Truth About Body Image
Tough Guise (2006)
Zerophilia (2005)