Word: brumberg
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...reported every year, and between 5% and 10% of females 14 and older suffer from such disorders, according to the nonprofit group Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention. "I don't think in local communities and in schools we're seeing any real flowering of girl power," says Joan Brumberg, author of The Body Project, which draws on diary entries from Victorian times to the present to argue that girls have increasingly defined themselves in terms of their looks. Although she believes that girls need their own cultural icons, Brumberg is worried that celebrities inevitably reinforce the notion that appearance...
...Brumberg discussed the psychological implications and emotional problems associated with hyper-awareness about physical appearance...
...Brumberg's book addresses contemporary girls' preoccupation with their bodies and appearance, according to a press release...
Joan Jacobs Brumberg, author of a new book, The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls, held a discussion and book signing at Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library yesterday...
According to Brumberg, recent grants the Foundation has awarded to Harvard include a gift to the Divinity School for scholarship in Judaica and grants to the Semitic Museum...