#Renee engeln

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—  Renee Engeln, Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearances Hurts Girls and Women

#currently reading #beauty sick #rene engeln #quote #women's issues #feminism

[victoriawoodhullforpresident]

“But remembering what

our bodies do for us is an essential first step in finding the ability to feel at home in our own skin. Though I’ve focused

a lot on physical activity, remember that thinking about your body in terms of what it can do is not just about working out.

You don’t have to be fully able-bodied to feel gratitude for what your body can do. You don’t have to run a marathon or complete

CrossFit challenges to be worthy. That’s not all there is to your body’s function. Your body is home to all of the skills

you’ve developed over your lifetime. It facilitates your important social interactions. The movements of your face express

your deepest emotions. And the internal functions of your body, those you can’t readily see, are just as inspiring. Your body

takes nutrients from your food and uses those nutrients to power you as you make your way around the world. How can a body

that does all those things be disgusting or shameful? It’s the chorus of objectifying voices in our culture that blinds us

to these wonders.”

Excerpt From

Beauty Sick

Renee Engeln, PhD

https://books.apple.com/us/book/beauty-sick/id1137543391

This material may be protected by copyright.

#beauty sick #Renee Engeln PhD

[spiderfreedom]

That [no-makeup makeup] is meant to disappear flaws, then disappear into the wearer — to appear to be “no makeup;” to look “clean” — speaks to the making of modern femininity, which, Susie Orbach writes in the foreword to Aesthetic Labour: Rethinking Beauty Politics in Neoliberalism, is “marked by a concealment of the work of body making.” The labor of making one’s effort invisible is “so integrated into the take up of femininity that we may be ignorant of the processes we engage in,” according to the author. “We are encouraged to translate the work of doing so into the categories of ‘fun,’ of being ‘healthy’ and of ‘looking after ourselves.’”  Payment for this kind of labor comes in the form of privilege. Embodying the beauty ideal elicits better social treatment, more attention from teachers and supervisors, greater job opportunities, higher pay. To vanish into beauty is to become visible as a person. (“Beauty isn't actually what you look like,” sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom writes in Thick: And Other Essays, “beauty is the preferences that reproduce the existing social order.”)  “It’s interesting to note that there’s psychological research suggesting we view women as less human when they wear a lot of makeup,” said Dr. Renee Engeln, a professor of psychology at Northwestern University.  Maybe the “five-minute face” is a plea: See me. I am invisible. I am human.

How the 5 Minute Face became the $5000 face by Jessica Defino at The Unpublishable

#beauty culture #feminism #radical feminism #anti skincare #mypost #bookcitation

[radfemverity]

“The power beauty gives resides on unstable ground. It’s power that exists only if others are there to acknowledge it. It's never really your own power, because there's always someone else in charge. Even worse, it's power with an expiration date because the link between beauty and power is near universal. It's power you don't get to keep. Women should become more powerful with age as they gain valuable skills, experience and wisdom. If we tie power to beauty, we risk letting it trail away with our youth. It’s a grotesque kind of power that begins to disappear just as a woman starts to find her footing in the world. It’s a twisted power that makes her terrified of showing her age while men can rest comfortably in the privilege of looking more distinguished as they get older.”

From the book Beauty Sick by Renee Engeln

#radfem #radfems #radical feminism

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[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

Does anyone have a PDF of Renee Engeln’s Beauty Sick?? Eternal gratitude and a credit in my objectification essay (should it ever materialise) in return

#radblr

[dearestlv]

Sobbing over Beauty Sick by Renee Engeln. If you are a woman, please please read it. It genuinely changed my life.

#anti beauty industry #feminism

[lavenderfeminist]

If you’re looking to expand your feminist library with a hardcover or paperback of Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez, BookOutlet.com has you covered, I’ve discovered. I’ve also found copies of Beauty Sick by Renee Engeln and  The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf. I personally find having a physical copy to annotate very helpful, and if you can’t shell out full price for a book (or just want to save money), these are overstock books which means they’re in new condition with a small marking, usually sharpie, that denotes they will not be resold in stores.

#no this is not an ad I just got excited seeing Invisible Women #if you're international the pricing may not be worth it but for a large order like a book club it might be

[lost-in-my-books-blog]

Czy jest coś w Twoim wyglądzie, co chciałabyś zmienić?🤔 ~*~ Właśnie przeczytałam jeden z bardziej wartościowych tytułów, w którym Autorka porusza problemy z jakimi zmagają się kobiety przez kulturę popularną.🙎‍♀️ ● Która z nas nie była nigdy oceniania przez pryzmat wyglądu? Każdego dnia kobiety muszą zmagać się oceną nie tylko mężczyzn ale również innych kobiet. Wiele dziewczyn na siłę stara się dorównać ideałowi wykreowamu przez społeczeństwo, cierpiąc przy tym często psychinie, fizycznie i na brak pieniędzy, ponieważ znaczną ich część poświęcają na kosmetyki i dbanie o wygląd, bo wypada! Przecież np. nie przyjdziesz do pracy nie ogarnięta? Na mężczyznę nie koniecznie zwróci się uwagę, na kobietę już tak. Same przyznacie, że bywa to męczące? 😶 ● Dr Renee Engeln napisała reportaż o tym, jak wygląda codzienne życie kobiet, dlaczego są często uprzedmiotowywane, jak jeden komentarz może zrodzić problemy i ile mogłybyśmy osiągnąć gdybyśmy każdego dnia nie brały udziału w wyścigu o idealny wygląd, który nie ma końca? ☝️ ● Tę książkę powinna przeczytać każda kobieta i młoda dziewczyna, a nawet zachęcałabym mężczyzn do zapoznania się z tym, jak wygląda codzienne życie kobiet. Myślę, że ten tytuł może pomóc niejednej osobie. ❤ Szczerze polecam! Będzie również idealna jako prezent pod choinkę. 🎄 #reneeengeln #obsesjapiękna #recenzja #reportaż #piękno #kobiety #książka #ebook #czytnik #bookrecommendation #bookreview #wartoczytać #dobreksiążki #polecamgorąco #polskaczyta #polishbookstagram #bookreader #bookstagrampolska #ig_books #igreads #kochamczytać #ilovereading #czytaniejestsexy #czytamwszędzie #czytelniczka #ksiazkowelove #ksiazkoholizm (w: Wroclaw [Wroclove]) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl1NGcXNFy0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[radical-witchery]

The problem starts early. University of Michigan sociologist Karin Martin observed more than 100 children at five preschools and concluded that the way young girls were dressed inhibited their ability to move around. Turns out it’s hard to crawl around in a dress. The girls also had to monitor how they moved in their clothes. Wearing a dress meant you couldn’t follow suit when your playmates propped their feet up on a table.  The girls’ clothing was a continual source of distraction. Tights had to be yanked up. Bows had to be straightened. Martin watched 5-year-old girls playing dress-up in a pair of women’s shoes. The girls practiced walking, their steps small as they imitated how adult women move in heels.

Renee Engeln, Why care about a shoe emoji? Because women’s fashion has real implications for our lives.

[juniperusashei]

The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf - 4/5

I actually bought The Beauty Myth thinking it was a different book, Renee Engeln’s Beauty Sick. I’m glad I read this one first, as it is from the 90’s and Wolf seems to have built a framework that Engeln built on for the 21st century. Naomi Wolf’s thesis is that progress is not necessarily linear, an idea she shares with Rosalind Miles. Wolf argues that, as 20th century women have made great leaps towards equality, the patriarchy has had to invent new ways to suppress them. Thus, with the sexual revolution and Roe v. Wade came the invention of new social malaises of eating disorders and plastic surgery addictions. It’s a single-issue book, but ties in the titular Beauty Myth to all facets of women’s lives, sometimes tenuously. For example, the chapter called “Religion” uses the clever rhetorical device of comparing diet language to evangelical ways of thinking (for example temptation and sin), but the metaphor is at times drawn out way too much and it’s hard to read just on account of the language.

By no means is if a frivolous book though. Wolf’s analysis is some of the most sound that I’ve ever seen, and it really did help me put words to a lot of what I’ve been feeling. The book is evidence-based, with all claims being backed up by statistics. The framework that Wolf builds is so robust that it can apply to all beauty trends as they change over time: her philosophy is not that a specific image is bad, but the existence of these standards in the first place is. And most importantly, Wolf is writing to an audience instead of just putting her opinion out there for people who already agree with her. The book does focus on heterosexual women, and is aware of this, for they might be the demographic most affected by beauty standards, but there is something that will help everyone learn to love themselves. The most interesting part of The Beauty Myth is that it is not “man-hating” (someone like Dworkin could rightly be described as man-hating, and she is justified in that); a common thread is that beauty standards are invented by the patriarchy to control women, but individual men in spite of these standards don’t seem to prefer anorexic women. I found this book so strong that it’s a complete shame that Naomi Wolf has gone off the rails in recent years to become an anti-vaxxer!

#The Beauty Myth #Naomi Wolf #feminism #nonfiction #4 #september 2022 #2022

[victoriawoodhullforpresident]

“Personal finance site Mint.com estimates that the average woman will spend $15,000 in her lifetime on makeup. One recent report

by the YWCA made it crystal clear that money spent on beauty is money that could have been spent somewhere else.1 According to their math, if you saved $100 a month that you would normally spend on beauty, after five years, you’d have

enough for one year of in-state tuition at a public college or university.”

Excerpt From

Beauty Sick

Renee Engeln, PhD

https://books.apple.com/us/book/beauty-sick/id1137543391

This material may be protected by copyright.

#beauty sick #Renee Engeln PhD #sexism #capitalism

[chloesunit4]

Effect of Size on the Catwalk:

 Despite pushes for greater body size inclusivity, fashion models (particularly those who do runway work) remain overwhelmingly thin, often dangerously so.

Much study has been conducted to determine how much exposure to photographs of these ultra-thin models relates to body image issues or eating disorder symptoms in women. Less research has been done on how modeling's expectations for extreme thinness impact the incidence of eating disorders among women who work in the business. According to new research published in The European Eating Disorders Review, despite recent efforts to curb the employment of dangerously thin models, a large number of professional models are extremely thin. However, only a fraction of these models report participating in eating-disordered behaviours at a high degree. Fashion models are frequently pressured to reduce weight or maintain an abnormally low weight. These expectations are commonly made by agencies and designers, who emphasise that having an extremely slender figure is both necessary for getting employed and necessary for fitting into the tiny sizes generally offered for runway presentations. In a recent study done by a team of academics in Hungary, roughly 200 models, all of whom were women, from 36 different countries took an online survey concerning eating disordered beliefs and behaviours. They were paired with a group of similarly aged women who were not interested in modelling. The poll was circulated through fashion models' social networks and by numerous non-profit organisations that seek to safeguard models.

Overall, the researchers discovered that the fashion models were extremely skinny. Approximately 45 percent had BMIs ranging from 17 to 18.5; an additional 21 percent had BMIs below 17, which is considered very underweight. In comparison, just 4% of women in the non-model group had BMIs under 17. In terms of simulated diagnoses, 4% of the models fulfilled anorexia criteria, with an additional 15% fulfilling subclinical anorexia criteria. The increased incidence of both full syndrome and partial syndrome anorexia persisted even when the researchers statistically controlled for the fact that models were taller and thinner than non-model women. Bulimia was less common among the models, with around 2 percent meeting the full criteria and 6 percent in the subthreshold category for bulimia. Overall, bulimia was not more common in the group of models compared to the non-models. Extreme thinness is a diagnostic sign for anorexia, but not for bulimia or binge eating disorder, which were not investigated in this study due to its narrow scope. Those who have anorexia symptoms but are not underweight are typically diagnosed with a "other specified" type of anorexia, often known as "atypical anorexia." While the fashion industry is clearly at blame for encouraging harmful levels of thinness in women, eating disorders are not restricted to the underweight.

In summary, this study indicates that fashion models are significantly thinner than age-matched women and are frequently dangerously underweight. These findings also add credence to the widely held belief that merely becoming a fashion model increases the likelihood of anorexia. Will fashion firms ever accept a broader range of body shapes on the runway? The evidence is conflicting. The most recent New York Fashion Week included 48 plus-size models, compared to only six plus-size models in the autumn of 2021. However, when it comes to the top fashion labels, models continue to be extremely slim.

Referencing:

Renee Engeln, Ph.D. (2021). How Common Are Eating Disorders Among Fashion Models?. [Online]. Psychology Today. Last Updated: 15 June 2021. Available at: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/beauty-sick/202206/how-common-are-eating-disorders-among-fas [Accessed 1 September 2023].

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[radfemriotgurl]

Beauty sickness is not a literal illness. You won’t see it on an X-ray or in the results of a blood test. But like many other types of illnesses, you can see its widespread and devastating effects. Some of the effects are obvious, like eating disorders and skyrocketing rates of plastic surgery. Others are more subtle, like the distracted hours a girl spends obtaining the perfect selfie to post on social media. Beauty sickness may not be a diagnosis a physician or psychologist would make, but I promise you that any health care practitioner who works with women has seen it. We’ve all seen it.

Renee Engeln

Beauty Sickness

#radical feminism #radfem #gendercritical

[captainmdhridoyhossain-blog]

[ad_1] The filter makes users look younger and more glamorous. Some TikTokers are concerned that the tool promotes unrealistic beauty standards. (Story aired on All Things Considered on March 8, 2023.) STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: What you see on social media is not necessarily real life. Many people use filters when they're posting photos on social media - filters that change the light and maybe make people look brighter, more attractive. If you don't know, now you know. TikTok has unveiled a new filter powered by artificial intelligence which might be too good. NPR's Bobby Allyn takes a look.BOBBY ALLYN, BYLINE: Annie Luong (ph) noticed it right away when she opened up TikTok recently.ANNIE LUONG: I just saw a lot of girls turning on this filter and their reactions to the filter and how it was such an advanced filter, so I wanted to try it.ALLYN: Luong is talking about TikTok's new beauty filter called Bold Glamour. It's become a viral sensation because it's different than past beauty filters. It uses advanced artificial intelligence. Instead of just putting a digital layer over your face, this filter completely re-creates your nose, chin, cheeks and eyes using a process known as machine learning. Luong, a 28-year-old who works in management consulting in Toronto, looked at herself in the Bold Glamour filter and thought...LUONG: OK, this looks pretty cool, but it just didn't feel like reality. And maybe that - it's because I know that it's not reality, where I'm like, I know that's not how I look in person, and I know that's - I'm not even going to try to look like that.ALLYN: Some of the tens of millions of TikTokkers who have tried the filter have had similar reactions.(SOUNDBITE OF MONTAGE)UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Like, this is hard to tell that it's a filter.UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: This is just so scary. Like, it's so realistic, this one, and so damaging for people that think that this is what everyone should look like.UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: I don't know what kind of sorcery that filter is...ALLYN: Not only is the filter creating a glossier, skinnier, more movie-star version of yourself, but people have been freaking out because it's just so persuasive.Luke Hurd is a consultant who works on filters for Instagram and Snapchat.LUKE HURD: It is different. It's not cartoony. It's not drastically aging you or turning you into a child or flipping your gender on its head. And there are a lot of times where you have to kind of look down in the corner and see, wait, is there a filter on this person? And lately, it's been yes.ALLYN: That blurring of the line between reality and fiction is something that can have a lasting effect on your sense of self, says Renee Engeln. She's the director of the Body and Media Lab at Northwestern University.RENEE ENGELN: So your own face that you see in the mirror suddenly looks ugly to you. It doesn't look good enough. It looks like something you need to change. It makes you more interested in plastic surgery or other kinds of procedures.ALLYN: Engeln says some might see a TikTok filter as a playful thing, but it should be taken seriously.ENGELN: It's not like a TikTok filter directly causes clinical depression, but I think it adds to this culture where a lot of young people are feeling really alienated from themselves.ALLYN: Whether creating freakishly good images out of scratch or chatbots that can hold sometimes disturbing conversations, artificial intelligence has been taking the internet by storm, and TikTok and other social media companies are trying to incorporate the latest AI magic into their apps to seize the moment. TikTok wouldn't comment on the design of the filter, and they wouldn't discuss how the feature could potentially worsen people's image of themselves. Luong, in Toronto, says she's happy to see so many people on TikTok - mostly young women - using the filter to talk about how social media perpetuates unattainable beauty standards.

Many who commented on her video using the filter said, you know, I prefer the version of you without this filter.LUONG: But then there were a few comments where it's like, oh, it improved so much; like, you look so much better; like, you should always keep that filter on.ALLYN: Another TikTokker said, as she turned the filter on then off, no wonder everyone feels so ugly all the time.Bobby Allyn, NPR News. Copyright © 2023 NPR. All rights reserved. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Accuracy and availability may vary. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record. [ad_2] #AIpowered #TikTok #filter #sparking #concern #NPR

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Award-winning Northwestern University psychology professor Dr. Renee Engeln reveals how the cultural?obsession with women's appearance?is an epidemic that harms their ability to get ahead and to live happy, meaningful lives, in this powerful, eye-opening work in the vein of Naomi Wolf, Peggy Orenstein, and Sheryl Sandberg.Today?s young women face a bewildering set of contradictions when it comes to beauty. They don?t want to be Barbie dolls, but like generations of women before them,?are told?they must look like them. They?re angry about the media?s treatment of women but hungrily consume the very outlets that belittle them. They mock modern culture?s absurd beauty ideal and make videos exposing Photoshopping tricks but?feel pressured?to emulate the same images they criticize by posing with a "skinny arm". They understand that what they see isn?t real but still download apps to airbrush their selfies. Yet these same young women are fierce fighters for the issues they care about. They