In this new podcast, Dr. Jordan discusses important factors that have occurred over the past 200 years that have shifted cultural standards for how women are supposed to look, creating a moving target of unrealistic standards and pressures that continues to cause intense body dissatisfaction.
Some key factors discussed :
Bathrooms moving indoors with mirrors and weight scales; a cultural perspective that being overweight was considered a character flaw associated with laziness and a lack of self-control; the rise of advertising playing on teen girls anxieties and insecurities about their looks; earlier sexualization and objectification of girls; increased exhibitionism, perfectionism, lookism, and consumerism causing girls and women to be obsessed with weight, body, fashion, and being sexy.
Other valuable resources related to the topic of body image and body dissatisfaction:
Previous Dr. Jordan podcasts on the topic of girls and body image
When and why body image dissatisfaction begins:
Dr. Jordan’s book on adolescent girls: Sleeping Beauties, Awakened Women: Guiding the Transformation of Adolescent Girls
Book: Fat History, by Peter Stearns
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