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Important questions surrounding the praise over Kim Kardashian’s Skims are missing from mainstream conversations.
Idealized standards for muscular, fat-free male bodies may be fuelling the use of SARMs, or selective androgen receptor modulators, unapproved muscle-building drugs that are easily available online.
The more people watch TV the more likely it is that they prefer a slimmer female body size.
Moulding eyebrows to make a statement is nothing new. A journey through history, across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States, shows some of the highs and lows of brow fashion.
Many historic ideas about women’s beauty - from prizing firm breasts to emphasising the ‘natural’ - continue to resonate today.
In this photography-based research project, gay men document their struggles with body image, and challenge current beauty standards.
Many gyms use free tanning beds to lure in new members who are eager to look and feel their best. But this, argues Sherry Pagoto, runs against the health lifestyle premise these gyms are advocating.
People who’ve gotten nose jobs are also trying to revert to a more natural look.
Before #MeToo, Brazilian women launched #MyFirstHarrassment and marched for racial equality. Today, this feminist resurgence is tackling health care, plastic surgery, violence and more.
Collectable cigarette cards once depicted ‘exotic’ beauties, classified by the colonial eye. And today’s beauty contests still present women as exotic representatives of their nation.
For centuries, women with dwarfism were depicted in art as comic or grotesque fairytale beings. But artists are challenging these portrayals and notions of beauty and physical difference.
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Assistant Professor, Applied Human Nutrition, Mount Saint Vincent University
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Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Professor in Psychology, Durham University
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Fashion historian, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Professor of Visual Communication in the School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer, Humanitarian And Development Studies, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross
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Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Director and Professor of Gender, Sexuality, & Feminist Studies, Middlebury
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Professor of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut
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Assistant Professor, School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University
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Post-Doctoral Health System Impact Fellow at the Cancer Care Program, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Dalhousie University
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PhD Candidate, Sociology, University of Toronto
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Lecturer, College of Social & Applied Human Sciences, University of Guelph
