2008 Dewey Decimal Project: 155.91
Dec. 18th, 2008 08:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rsadelleA friend loaned me Body Outlaws: Young Women Write About Body Image and Identity, edited by Ophira Edut, so that was my non-fiction book for this month.
I did make it all the way through the book in two sittings, but it felt dated. I'm not sure if this is because of the book or because of me; I might have read it when I was in college (did, in fact, consider reading it when I was in college), but probably wouldn't pick it up now. Also, I'm pretty sure I stood in the bookstore when I was in college and read, at the very least, part of Nomy Lamm's essay.
With the exception of Lee Damsky's "Beauty Secrets," which is stunningly well-written (and placed in the middle of the book where everything after it is a disappointment), the essays aren't even anything particularly special - at least not if you spent a good part of the late 90s and early 2000s reading a fair amount of feminist literature the way I did. If you're interested in the topic, it's probably worth reading, but I'd recommend Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation over this for turn-of-the-century young women's perspectives on body image, even though Listen Up is not specifically a body image collection.
I did make it all the way through the book in two sittings, but it felt dated. I'm not sure if this is because of the book or because of me; I might have read it when I was in college (did, in fact, consider reading it when I was in college), but probably wouldn't pick it up now. Also, I'm pretty sure I stood in the bookstore when I was in college and read, at the very least, part of Nomy Lamm's essay.
With the exception of Lee Damsky's "Beauty Secrets," which is stunningly well-written (and placed in the middle of the book where everything after it is a disappointment), the essays aren't even anything particularly special - at least not if you spent a good part of the late 90s and early 2000s reading a fair amount of feminist literature the way I did. If you're interested in the topic, it's probably worth reading, but I'd recommend Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation over this for turn-of-the-century young women's perspectives on body image, even though Listen Up is not specifically a body image collection.