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Books
Berg, Francie M. Women Afraid to Eat: Breaking Free in Today’s Weight-Obsessed World. Hettinger, N.D.: Healthy Weight Network, 2000. (Rocklin 616.398 B493)

Berry, Bonnie. Beauty Bias: Discrimination and Social Power. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 2007.
(Rocklin 306.4613 B534)

Blum, Virginia L. Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. (Rocklin and NCC 617.95 B658)

Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. New York: Vintage Books, 1998. (Rocklin and NCC 305.235 B893)

Body Image: A Handbook of Theory, Research and Clinical Practice. New York: Guilford Press, 2002.
(Rocklin 306.4 B668c)

Covino, Deborah Caslav. Amending the Abject Body: Aesthetic Makeovers in Medicine and Culture. New York: State University of New York Press, 2004. (electronic book*)

Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2008. (Rocklin R 306.4 C868t)

Durham, Meenakshi Gigi. The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It. Woodstock: Overlook Press, 2008. (Rocklin 302.23 D961)

Edut, Ophira. Adios, Barbie: Young Women Write About Body Image and Identity. Seattle: Seal Press, 1998.
(NCC 306.4 A235)

Gilman, Sander L. Fat Boys: A Slim Book. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
(Rocklin 616.3980081 G487)

Gilman, Sander L. Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. (Rocklin and NCC 617.95 G487)

Gimlin, Debra L. Body Work: Beauty and Self-Image in American Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. (Rocklin, NCC and electronic book* 306.4 G491)

Grogan, Sarah. Body Image: Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men, Women and Children. London: Taylor & Francis, 2008. (electronic book)

Hall, Stephen S. Size Matters: How Height Affects the Health, Happiness and Success of Boys – and the Men They Become. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2006. (NCC 612.6 H179)

Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy. Am I Thin Enough Yet? The Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. (Rocklin and electronic book* 306.4 H587)

Kalodner, Cynthia R. Too Fat or Too Thin? A Reference Guide to Eating Disorders. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003. (Rocklin 616.8526 K14)

Lowe, Margaret A. Looking Good: College Women and Body Image, 1875-1930. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. (Rocklin 306.4 L913)

Miller, Laura. Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. (electronic book*)

Pendergast, Tom. Creating the Modern Man: American Magazines and Consumer Culture, 1900-1950. Columbia, MO: Univeristy of Missouri Press, 2000. (electronic book*)

Phillips, Katharine A. The Broken Mirror: Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. (Rocklin 616.852 P561)

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin. Getting Over Getting Older: An Intimate Journey. Boston: Little, Brown, 1996.
(NCC 305.244 P746)

Shields, Vickie Rutledge. Measuring Up: How Advertising Affects Self-Image. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. (Rocklin 305.3 S555)

Stearns, Peter N. Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West. New York: New York University Press, 1997. (Rocklin 613.2509 S799)

Weight Bias: Nature, Consequences and Remedies. New York: Guilford Press, 2005. (Rocklin 306.4613 W419)

Wilhelm, Sabine. Feeling Good About the Way You Look: A Program for Overcoming Body Image Problems. New York: Guilford Press, 2006. (Rocklin 646.7 W678)

Videos

Body Dysmorphic Disorder. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1997.
(Rocklin Video 616.852 B668)

Breasts: A Documentary. New York: First Run/Icarus Films, 1996. (Rocklin Video 391.62 B828)

Busting Out: A Film That Will Challenge How You Think About Breasts. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films, 2004. (Rocklin Video 391.62 B982)

Dying to Be Thin. South Burlington, VT: WGBH Video, 2000. (Rocklin Video 616.8526 D996).

The Human Body: Appearance, Shape and Self-Image. Santa Cruz, CA: University of California Extension Center for Media & Independent Learning, 1998. (Rocklin Video 613.0433 H918)

Killing Us Softly: Advertising’s Image of Women. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge Documentary Films, 1979.
(Rocklin Video 659 K48)

Killing Us Softly 3. Northhampton, MA: Media Education Foundation, 2000. (NCC Video 306.4 K48)

Private Dicks: Men Exposed. New York: First Run/Icarus Films, 1995. (Rocklin Video 573.656 P961)

* Electronic books are available at http://www.netlibrary.org. To access electronic books from off-campus, an account must first be created with NetLibrary from an on-campus computer. TS 1/09


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