On AlterNet: eating disorders
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "eating disorders"
Heather Corinna, RH Reality Check. July 26, 2009.
Young women today are faced with pressures and mixed messages about sex everywhere they look.
Cheryl Saban, Huffington Post. August 21, 2008.
A mind-boggling variety of torture devices have been contrived throughout history to make women more 'attractive' to men.
Naomi Hooke, The Independent UK. October 1, 2007.
One woman delves deep into the causes of the anorexia that nearly killed her. But of one thing she's sure -- it had nothing to do with 'size 0' models.
Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet. April 18, 2007.
Thinness and beauty are prerequisites for perfection, which to today's young women appears to be the only road to happiness. Under that logic, women's bodies have become places where that drive for perfection -- however self-destructive -- gets played out.