Beauty Bound

Beauty Bound
Author: Rita Jackaway Freedman
Publisher: Free Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1986
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN:

Includes material on femininity (psychology).

Bound Beauty

Bound Beauty
Author: Mick Takeuchi
Publisher: Go Comi
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2008-09
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781605100081

Legend says that fated lovers are bound together by an invisible red thread. Most people think it's superstition, but seventeen-year-old Chiyako knows better -- she can see them! Yearning to be an independent adult, she's struggling to earn enough money to move out of her parents' house. Her path is clear, until a chance encounter with a mysterious group of hot guys known as the Tyers shows her that she has the power to pull all of fate's strings...though doing so binds her into the form of a child!

Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders
Author: Raymond Lemberg
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
Total Pages: 253
Release: 1999
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781573561563

Offers a collection of articles which discuss the causes, symptoms, health and psychological effects, and treatments of eating disorders, and provides a directory of facilities and programs designed to help people with these disorders.

Beauty Matters

Beauty Matters
Author: Peg Zeglin Brand
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2000-05-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780253213754

Beauty has captured human interest since before Plato, but how, why, and to whom does beauty matter in today's world? Whose standard of beauty motivates African Americans to straighten their hair? What inspires beauty queens to measure up as flawless objects for the male gaze? Why does a French performance artist use cosmetic surgery to remake her face into a composite of the master painters' version of beauty? How does beauty culture perceive the disabled body? Is the constant effort to remain young and thin, often at considerable economic and emotional expense, ethically justifiable? Provocative essays by an international group of scholars discuss aesthetics in aesthetics, the arts, the tools of fashion, the materials of decoration, and the big business of beautification—beauty matters—to reveal the ways gender, race, and sexual orientation have informed the concept of beauty and driven us to become more beautiful. Here, Kant rubs shoulders with Calvin Klein. Beauty Matters draws from visual art, dance, cultural history, and literary and feminist theory to explore the values and politics of beauty. Various philosophical perspectives on ethics and aesthetics emerge from this penetrating book to determine and reveal that beauty is never disinterested.

The Body Image Workbook

The Body Image Workbook
Author: Thomas Cash
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2008-07-02
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1608826163

Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to accept and enjoy the way you look instead of constantly worrying about and criticizing your appearance? What if instead of focusing on your flaws, you felt confident with the body you have right now? If you don't like what you see when you look in the mirror, you may not realize that these feelings are entirely within your grasp. You don't need extensive cosmetic surgery, pricey beauty treatments, or weight loss programs, but you may need to do something even more drastic-change your perspective and the way you view yourself. The Body Image Workbook offers a comprehensive program to help you stop focusing on your perceived imperfections and start feeling more confident about the way you look. As you complete the helpsheets in this book, you'll learn to celebrate your body instead of feeling ashamed of it. This new edition includes discussions of our obsession with physical appearance and with body-fixing options. It helps you discover your personal body image strengths and vulnerabilities and then guides you in creating new, life-changing experiences of mindfulness and body acceptance. After completing this eight-step program, you'll look at yourself in a whole new light-seeing the beauty of the real you.

Beauty (and the Banana)

Beauty (and the Banana)
Author: Brian C. Nixon
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2021-05-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1725285320

What is it that makes something beautiful? Is beauty solely in the eye of the beholder, or something deeper, more significant? In Beauty (and the Banana), Nixon writes as an introductory book for Christian leaders, providing the reader an overview of the historical, hermeneutical, and heuristic considerations of beauty. Using the artwork Comedian (a banana taped to a wall) by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan as a springboard, Nixon addresses various fundamental factors of beauty—ontology (being), teleology (form and understanding), and immutability (transcendence and eternality). Integrating poetry and classical ideals throughout, Beauty (and the Banana)’s response to the above questions may surprise all who read—beauty is more than meets the eye.

Beauty and the Abject

Beauty and the Abject
Author: Corrado Federici
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780820488103

Original Scholarly Monograph

Body Wars

Body Wars
Author: Margo Maine
Publisher: Gurze Books
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0936077344

Written for activists and educators, this cultural critique of female body image discusses the topic as it relates to sports, fashion, advertising, and propaganda, and offers practical strategies for those willing to fight unhealthy or unrealistic female images in society. Original. Tour.

"There She Is, Miss America"

Author: Elwood Watson
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2004-08-21
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781403963017

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Art before the Law

Art before the Law
Author: Ruth Ronen
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1442647884

Ever since Plato expelled the poets from his ideal state, the ethics of art has had to confront philosophy’s denial of art’s morality. In Art before the Law, Ruth Ronen proposes a new outlook on the ethics of art by arguing that art insists on this tradition of denial, affirming its singular ethics through negativity. Ronen treats the mechanism of negation as the basis for the relationship between art and ethics. She shows how, through moves of denial, resistance, and denouncement, art exploits its negative relation to morality. While deception, fiction, and transgression allegedly locate art outside morality and ethics, Ronen argues they enable art to reveal the significance of the moral law, its origins, and the idea of the good. By employing the thought of Freud and Lacan, Ronen reconsiders the aesthetic tradition from Plato through Kant and later philosophers of art in order to establish an ethics of art. An interdisciplinary study, Art before the Law is sure to be of interest both to academic philosophers and to those interested in psychoanalytic theory and practice.