The Beauty Myth (51 page)

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——.
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——.
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——.
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Brownmiller, Susan.
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Freedman, Rita Jackaway.
Beauty Bound
. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1986.

Hatfield, Elaine, and Susan Sprecher.
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abortion, 134, 158–159, 218, 219

About Face
, 237

actresses, 288

adolescence, 192, 248

anorexia and, 201–213

of author, 201–207

of boys vs. girls, 156–157

sexual behavior in, 156–157, 162–168

adultery, punishment of, 220

advertising, 11, 15, 226, 276–277, 277–278, 307
n
–308
n

of cosmetic surgery, 233, 234, 248

Rites of Beauty and, 101, 103–104, 108–109, 112–119

sex in, 132–133

in women’s magazines, 62, 64–67, 73–84, 305
n
, 307
n

Africa, 13, 190, 295
n

female circumcision in, 243–244

age, aging, 13, 14, 38, 42, 54

of men, 93–94

Rites of Beauty and, 105–106, 110–111, 121

TV journalism and, 35–37

women’s magazines and, 82–84

AIDS, 115, 134–135, 159, 167–168, 182, 241

airbrushing, 82–83

Alcott, Louisa May, 60

Alice Through the Microscope
(Brighton Women and Science Group), 255

American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, 95

American Anorexia and Bulimia Association, 181–182

American Board of Plastic Surgery, 241

American dream, beauty and, 28, 29

American Medical Association, 227, 239

American Society of Plastic and

Reconstructive Surgery, 237

Andre
v.
Bendix Corporation
, 39

animals, sexual behavior of, 13, 132, 311
n

anorexic/pornographic generation, 214–217, 280

anorexics, anorexia, 123, 162, 181–183, 197–199, 201–208

deaths from, 182

defined, 183

medical effects of, 183

sex and, 193

statistics on, 181–183

theories of, 188–189

Another Woman, 75

anxiety, 16–18, 69, 97

women’s magazines and, 62

work and, 30

appearance:

behavior vs., 14

double standard of, 34, 35, 48–52

of men, 34, 35, 43–45, 48–49

shifting views on appropriateness of, 42, 44

see also
beauty myth, beauty; clothes; cosmetic surgery

Appel, Willa, 100, 107–108, 122, 123, 125–128

appetite, prohibition of, 97–98

Arendt, Hannah, 210

art, images of women in, 184

Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (Great Britain), 237

Attie, Ilana, 196, 229, 320
n