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Women, Weight, and Food.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Woman and Social Action ; number 110
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women's Bodies, Sexuality, and Health.
- Gender and Popular Culture.
- Local Subjects:
- Women's Bodies, Sexuality, and Health.
- Gender and Popular Culture.
- Genre:
- Lecture/presentation
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (3550 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, IL : Governors State University, [1994]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Examines the impact of media and social institutions on a woman's attitude toward her body. The Studio Class discusses aspects of diversity in the female body and our national obsession with thinness. Students discuss gender-related weight and food issues, how body perceptions influences sexuality and power, and how social action might help women win back control of their bodies. Interview: Demetria Iazzetto, contributor to The New Our Bodies, Ourselves: Updated and Expanded for the 90's.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed March 22, 2021).
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