Women’s Body Liberation Resource List 🌺

BOOKS

Health at Every Size, Body Liberation & Anti Diet:

  • Body Respect, by Linda Bacon & Lucy Aphramor
  • Health at Every Size, by Linda Bacon
  • Embody, by Connie Sobczak
  • Body of Truth, Harriet Brown
  • Body Kindness: Transform Your Health from the Inside Out and Never Say Diet Again, by Rebecca Scritchfield

Intuitive Eating:

  • Intuitive Eating, by Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch
  • Intuitive Eating Workbook, by Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch
  • Podcast: Food Psych, Christy Harrison

Women’s Bodies:

  • The Beauty Myth, by Naomi Wolf
  • This Is Who I Am: Our Beauty in All Shapes and Sizes, by Rosanne Olson
  • Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image, by Ophira Edut & Rebecca Walker
  • Body Work: Beauty and Self-Image in American Culture, by Debra Gimlin
  • The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and Five Keys to Fixing It, by M. Gigi Durham
  • Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media, by Susan Douglas
  • Bodies, by Susie Orbach
  • Feminism is for Everybody, Bell Hooks
  • The Body Project, by Joan Jacobs Brumberg

Body Size Memoirs:

  • Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Guide for Unapologetic Living, by Jes Baker
  • Big Girl: How I Gave Up Dieting and Got a Life, by Kelsey Miller
  • Shrill, by Lindy West

WEBSITES, TALKS, PODCASTS, DOCUMENTARIES, & ARTICLES:

Beauty Redefined
www.beautyredefined.net/blog

The Body Positive
www.thebodypositive.org

Health at Every Size
http://haescommunity.com
https://healthateverysizeblog.org/

Vivienne McMaster Photography
Be Your Own Beloved: Exploring Self-Compassion Through Self-Portraiture
http://www.viviennemcmasterphotography.com/e-courses/

Matter of Fat Podcast (local!!)
Cat Polivoda + Saraya Boghani
www.MatterOfFatPod.com

Bustle – Body Positive
www.bustle.com/body-positive

Refinery – Anti Diet Project
www.refinery29.com/the-anti-diet-project

Miss Representation – Documentary
www.youtube.com/missrepresentation

Embrace – Documentary
https://bodyimagemovement.com/embrace-the-documentary/

Straight/Curve – Documentary
www.straightcurvefilm.com/

Fattitude – Documentary
http://fattitudethemovie.squarespace.com/home

How Diet Culture Upholds Capitalism
http://everydayfeminism.com/2014/12/diet-culture-upholds-capitalism/

Why You Can’t Lose Weight on a Diet
www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/opinion/sunday/why-you-cant-lose-weight-on-a-diet

Why Dieting Doesn’t Usually Work – TED
www.ted.com/talks/sandra_aamodt_why_dieting_doesn_t_usually_work

The Fantasy of Being Thin
https://kateharding.net/2007/11/27/the-fantasy-of-being-thin/

Why It’s Ok to be Fat
https://www.youtube.com/why_its_ok_to_be_fat

Twin Cities Fat Community
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TwinCitiesFatCommunity

Dances With Fat
https://danceswithfat.wordpress.com/

Your Fat Friend
https://medium.com/@thefatshadow

Stacy Bias
http://stacybias.net/

Living Without Shame
www.youtube.com/livingwithoutshame

Stripping Away Negative Body Image
www.youtube.com/strippingawaynegativebodyimage

Women on Aging
www.facebook.com/womenonaging
www.womenonaging.com

The Adipositivity Project
http://theadipositivityproject.zenfolio.com/

National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance
www.naafaonline.com

Jes Baker TED Talk
www.upworthy.com/jesbakerted

The Men Who Made Us Thin (4 parts) – Documentary
www.dailymotion.com/video/p1
www.dailymotion.com/video/p2
www.dailymotion.com/video/p3
www.dailymotion.com/video/p4

Laci Green – Sex Object BS
www.youtube.com/lacigreen_sexobject

An Epidemic of Beauty Sickness: Renee Engeln
www.youtube.com/beautysickness

Everyday Sexism: Laura Bates at Ted
www.youtube.com/laurabatested

Kim Biddle: Consumer, Sex & The Objectification of Women
www.youtube.com/kimbiddle

The Sexy Lie: Caroline Heldman at TED
www.youtube.com/sexylie

About Face
www.about-face.org/about-us/

Violence Against Women
www.youtube.com/vilenceagainstwomen

Objectification of Women – PSA Commercial
www.youtube.com/objectificationofwomen

Women Not Objects – PSA Commercial
www.youtube.com/womennotobjects

Dove Onslaught
www.youtube.com/doveonslaughtcommercial

Dove – Evolution
www.youtube.com/bodyevolution
www.youtube.com/evolution

Frances McDormand: True to Herself
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/FrancesMcDormand

Naomi Wolf and the Aging Myth
www.washingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf-addresses-the-aging-myth

Women Not Allowed to Age
www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/women-aging

Wear Your Voice – Body Politics
https://wearyourvoicemag.com/category/body-politics

Militant Baker – Jes Baker (Jes has an AMAZING resource list)
www.themilitantbaker.com/p/resources.html

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