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According to the University of Illinois study, a razor-thin majority of librarians who encountered information requests from law enforcement agents did not cooperate. Similar data has been shown in more local studies. The data is ambiguous, though, since it’s difficult to distinguish how many of these cases fall under the provisions of Section...
...Mary Pipher writes in Reviving Ophelia that “...the omnipresent media consistently portrays desirable women as thin.... Even as real women grow heavier, models and beautiful women are portrayed as thinner.” Today, it is almost impossible not to be subjected to the socially determined standards of attractiveness; television, advertisements and diet programs are constantly reinforcing the same message that thinness is synonymous with beauty and success. More dangerous, this message fuels an illusion that the “perfection” of models is attainable, if only one wants it badly enough. Thus women...
...many meals. Of course, this was no novel discovery—the endless pages of endless legs were little surprise. After all, models are almost always expected to fit an unhealthily tall and skinny image. What was surprising, however, was the fact that the pictures of impossibly thin, bikini-clad models appeared just pages away from an article discussing the serious battle against anorexia and bulimia fought by one of the most prominent of these models, Karen Elson. Evidently, writing about body problems was one thing, but actually compromising the glamour factor of the magazine by featuring...
...prominent force in the fashion world, Vogue holds the rare opportunity to directly influence society’s conception of beauty for women. Instead of using this power for good, though, Vogue has mostly chosen to enforce the stereotypes of body images. Its photo spreads still show impossibly thin women, languidly perched on stools and stilettos. Advertisements for everything from purses to perfume still make use of sensual female body parts...
...course itself had all the initial administrative probalems that one might expect from someone who is not by training an academic,” Connor said. “Elvis is spread very thin right...