On AlterNet: bodies

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Why Are Women's Bodies So Frequently Violated While the Imaginary Borders of Nations So Fiercely Defended?

Sally Kohn, Movement Vision Lab. June 16, 2011.

A meditation on the ideas and ideals shaping our lives.

The Horrors Perpetrated By Fake Christian Clinics

Charlotte Taft, RH Reality Check. March 27, 2011.

Sometimes the Fake Clinic would actually send their white-coated volunteers out into the parking lot to take our unwitting patients into their facility.

We Are in the Midst of a Cultural Explosion Tied to 'Improving' the Body

Susie Orbach, Picador Press. March 4, 2009.

A new rhetoric of detox, weight training, brushing, irrigation and cleansing has arisen, and along with it the idea that the body can be perfected.

Eat Me: In Defense of Sex and Bacon

Josey Vogels, My Messy Bedroom. July 28, 2008.

Sarah Katherine Lewis' new book connects the dots between food, sex, and our relationships with our bodies.