Abell, Steven C. & Richards, Maryse H. "The Relationship Between Body Shape Satisfaction and Self-Esteem: An Investigation of Gender and Class Differences", Journal of Youth and Adolescence 25, 5 (1996), 691-703.
"Beauty is only Skin Deep", Off Our Backs XXV, 7, 6 (July 1995).
Becker, Anne E. Body, self, and society: the view from Fiji. New cultural studies. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.
Bell, Crystal., Kirkpatrick, Sue W. & Rinn Roger C. "Body Image of Anorexic, Obese, and Normal Females", Journal of Clinical Psychology 42 (1986), 431-439.
Beller, Ann Scott. Fat and Thin: A Natural History of Obesity (New York, 1977).
Bermudez, Jose Luis. The Body and the Self (Cambridge, 1995).
Birtchnell, S.A., Dolan, B., & Lacey, H.J. "Body Size Distortion in Non-Eating Disordered Women", International Journal of Eating Disorders 9, 6 (1987), 385-391.
Blair, Nancy. "Born Female, not a Curse but an Honor", Radience- The Magazine for Large Women 34 (Spring 1993), 21.
Bordo, Susan. "Reading the Slender Body", in Body /Politics: Women and the Discourses of Science (New York, 1990).
Boston Women’s Health Book Collective. Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book By and For Women 2nd ed. (New York, 1976).
Brinded, P., Bushnell, J., McKenzie, J. & Wells, J.E. "Body Image Distortion Revisited: Temporal Instability of Body Image Distortion in Anorexia Nervosa", International Journal of Eating Disorders 9, 6 (1990), 695-701.
Brittingham, Dean. & Light, Raven. "Breast Cancer and Body Image", Off Our Backs xxiv, 10, 11 (November 1994).
Brown, Catrina. & Jasper, Karin. Consuming Passions: Feminist Approaches to Weight Preoccupation and Eating Disorders (Toronto, 1993).
Brown, Marie Scott. Normal Development of Body Image (New York, 1977).
Bull, Ray and Nichola Rumsey. The social psychology of facial appearance. Springer series in social psychology. Springer-Verlag, 1988.
Canada. Health Services and Promotion Branch. Promoting Healthy Weights; A Discussion Paper (Ottawa, 1988).
Cash, T.F. "Body-Image Affect: Gestalt Versus Summing the Parts", Perceptual and Motor Skills 69 (1989), 17-18.
Cash, T.F. & Deagle, E.A. "The Nature and Extent of Body Image Disturbances in Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa: A Meta-Analysis", International Journal of Eating Disorders 22, 2 (1997), 107-125.
Cash, T.F. & Hicks, K.L. "Being Fat Versus Thinking Fat: Relationships With Body Image, Eating Bahaviors, and Well-Being", Cognitive Therapy and Research 14 (190), 327-341.
Cash, T.F. & Pruzinsky, T.eds. Body Images: Development, Deviance, and Change (New York, 1990).
Cash, Thomas. Body Images: Development, Deviance,and Change (New York, 1990).
Cash, Thomas F. "The Nature and Extent of Body Image Disturbances in Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa: A Meta-Analysis", International Journal of Eating Disorders 22 (1997), 107-125.
Cash, Thomas F. & Brown, Timothy A. "Gender and Body Images: Stereotypes and Realities", Sex Roles 21 (1989),361-373.
Cash, Thomas F. & Henry, Patricia E. "Women’s Body Images: The Results of a National Survey in the U.S.A.", Sex Roles 33 (1995), 19-28.
Caskey, N. "Interpreting Anorexia Nervosa", in The Female Body in Western Culture Suliman, S.R. ed. (Cambridge, 1986).
Chapkis, W. Beauty Secrets: Women and the Politics of Appearance (Boston, 1986).
Chernin, K. The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness (New York, 1982).
Chernin, Kim. The Hungry Self: Women, Eating, and Identity (New York, 1985).
Chrisler, Joan C. "Politics and Women’s Weight", Feminism and Psychology 6, 2 (1996), 181-184.
Ciliska, D. & Rice, C. "Body Image/ Body Politics", Healthsharing (Summer 1989), 13-17.
Cohn, Lawrence D. & Adler, Nancy E. "Female and Male Perceptions of Ideal Body Shapes: Distorted Views Among Caucasian College Students", Psychology of Women Quarterly 16 (1992), 69-79.
Collins, J., et al. "Variability in Body Shape Perception in Anorexic, Bulimic, Obese, and Control Subjects", International Journal of Eating Disorders 6 (1987), 633-638.
Cole, Letha B. and Mary G. Winkler. The good body: asceticism in contemporary culture. Yale University Press, 1994.
Crook, Marion. The Body Image Trap: Understanding and Rejecting Body Image Myths (North Vancouver, 1991).
Cusumano, Dale L. & Thompson, J. Kevin. "Body Image and Body Shape Ideals in Magazines: Exposure, Awareness, and Internalization", Sex Roles 37, 9-10 (November 1997), 701-721.
Darling-Wolf, Fabienne. "Mixed Message: How the Media Went Wrong on the Breast Implant Story", Herizons 10, 3, 15 (Summer 1996).
Davis, Kathy. "From Objectified Body to Embodied Subject: A Biographical Approach to Cosmetic Surgery", Comenius 15, 3 (Fall 1995), 290-303.
Davis, Kathy. Reshaping the female body: the dilemma of cosmetic surgery. Routledge, 1995.
Dionne, Michelle., Davis, Caroline. & Fox, John. "Feminist Ideology as a Predictor of Body Dissatisfaction in Women", Sex Roles 33 (1995), 277-287.
Dolan, B., Birtchnell, S., & Lacey, J.H. "Body Image Distortion in Non-Eating Disordered Women and Men", Journal of Psychosomatic Research 31, 4 (1987), 513-520.
Dyrenforth, S., Woolwy, O., & Wooley, S. "A Woman’s Body in a Man’s World: A Review of Findings on Body Image and Weight Control", in A Woman’s Conflict: The Special Relationship Between Women and Food Kaplan, R. ed. (Englewood Cliffs, 1980), 30-57.
Edelman, Helen S. "Why is Dolly Crying? An Analysis of Silicone Breast Implants in America as an Example of Medicalization", Journal of Popular Culture 28, 3 (1994), 19-32.
Edut, Ophira. "Can I Love my Body?", Hues (Winter 1996), 36-38.
Fallon, A. & Rozin, P. "Sex Differences in Perceptions of Desirable Body Shape", Journal of Abnormal Psychology 94, 1 (1985), 102-105.
Feher, Michel, Ramona Naddoff, and Nadia Taza. Fragments for a history of the human body. Urzone, 1989.
Fisher, Seymour. Body Image and Personality (New York, 1968).
Fisher, Seymour. Development and Structure of the Body Image (Hillsdale, 1986).
Finkelstein, Joanne. The fashioned self. Temple University Press, 1991.
Fisher, Seymour. Body consciousness: you are what you feel. A Spectrum book.
Fisher, Seymour Body experience in fantasy and behavior. Century psychology series. Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1970.
Fisher, Seymour Development and structure of the body image. L. Erlbaum Associates, 1986 .
Freedman, Rita Jackaway. Beauty bound. Lexington Books, 1986.
Friday, Nancy. The power of beauty. Harper Collins Publishers, 1996.
Friedman, Sandra Susan. When girls feel fat: helping girls through adolescence. Harper Collins, 1977.
Gamman, Lorraine. The Female Gaze: Women as Viewers of Popular Culture (Seattle, 1989).
Garfinkel, P., et al. "Body Awareness in Anorexia Nervosa: Disturbances in Body Image and Satiety", Psychosomatic Medicine 38 (1978), 327-336.
Garner, D.M., Garfinkel, P.E., Schwartz, D., & Thompson, M. "Cultural Expectations of Thinness in Women", Psychological Reports 47 (1980), 483-491.
Germov, John. & Williams, Lauren. "The Sexual Division of Dieting: Women’s Voices", Sociological Review 44, 4 (1996), 630-647.
Gill, Katherine S. & Overdorf, Virginia G. & Pfister, Gertrud. "Body Image, Weight and Eating Concerns, and Use of Weight Control Methods Among High School Female Athletes", Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal 3, 2 (Fall 1994), 69-79.
Gillespie, Rosemary. "Women, the Body and Brand Extension in Medicine: Cosmetic Surgery and the Paradox of Choice", Women and Health 24, 4 (1996), 69-85.
Gimlin, Debra Lynn. "Body Work: The Making of Gendered Self-Concepts", DAI 57, 7 (1997): 3256-A.
Goodman, Marcene. "Social, Psychological, and Developmental Factors in Women’s Receptivity to Cosmetic Surgery", Journal of Aging Studies 8, 4 (Winter 1994), 375-396.
Graber, Julia A. & Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne. "Growing Up Female: Navigating Body Image, Eating, and Depression", Reclaiming Children and Youth: Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Problems 5, 2 (Summer 1996), 76-80.
Gray, Elizabeth A. "Women’s Body Image: A Multivariate Study", Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology 21, 1 (1993), 103-110.
Grazer, Frederick M. Body Image: A Surgical Perspective (St. Louis, 1980).
Halberstam, Judith, and Ira Livingston. "Posthuman bodies". Indiana University Press, 1995.
Halprin, Sara. Look at my ugly face: myths and musings on beauty and other perilous obsessions with women's appearance. Viking, 1995.
Harris, Shanette M. "Family, Self, and Sociocultural Contributions to Body Image Attitudes of African American Women", Psychology of Women Quarterly 19, 1 (1995), 129-145.
Hatfield, Elaine and Susan Sprecker. Mirror, mirror: the importance of looks in everyday life. SUNY series in sexual behavior. SUNY, 1986
Henderson-King, Eaaron. & Henderson-King, Donna. "Media Effects on Women’s body Esteem: Social and Individual Difference Factors", Journal of Applied Social Psychology 27 (1997), 399-417.
Hesse Biber, Sharlene Janice. Am I thin enough yet?: the cult of thinness and the commercialization of identity. Oxford University Press, 1996.
Honeycutt, Karen. "Disgusting, Pathetic, Bizzarely Beautiful: Representations of Weight in Popular Culture", Department of Sociology, University of Mighigan, Ann Arbor, 1995.
Hutchinson, Marcia Germaine. Transforming Body Image: Learning to Love the Body You Have (Trumansberg, 1985).
Ikeda, Joanne P. and Priscilla Naworski. Am I fat?: helping young children accept differences in body size: suggestions for teachers, parents, and other care providers of children to age 10. ETR Associates, 1992.
Irving, L.M. "Mirror Images: Effects of the Standard of Beauty on the Self- and Body-Esteem of Women Exhibiting Varying Levels of Bulimic Symptoms", Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 9 (1990), 230-242.
Jackson, Linda A. & McGill, Olivia D. "Body Type Preferences and Body Characteristics Associated With Attractive and Unattractive Bodies by African Americans and Anglo Americans", Sex Roles 35 (1996), 295-307.
Jaffee, L., Lutter, J., & Straiton, N. "Larger Women in a Society Over-Occupied With Thinness", Melpomene Journal 9, 2 (1990), 18-25.
Johnston, Drue MacLaughlin. "Weighty Issues of Body Weight: Social Influences on Attitude Toward Self and Others", DAI 57, 11 (1997): 4947-A.
Koff, E. & Sangani, P. "Effects of Coping Style and Negative Body Image on Eating Disturbance", International Journal of Eating Disorders 22, 2 (1997), 51-56.
Koff, Elissa. & Bauman, Connie L. "Effects of Wellness, Fitness, and Sport Skills Programs on Body Image and Lifestyle Behaviors", Perceptual and Motor Skills 84 (1997), 555-562.
Kusmierz, Julie A. "Feast or Famine: The Sociocultural Psychology of Women, Men, Body Politics, and Food", DAI 53, 9(1993): 3378-A.
Kwon, Yoon-Hee. "Body Consciousness, Self-Consciousness, and Women’s Attitudes Toward Clothing Practices", Social Behavior and Personality 20, 4 (1992), 295-307.
Lakoff, Robin Tolmach and Raquel L. Scherr. Face value, the politics of beauty. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984.
Lambert, Ellen Zetzel. The face of love: feminism and the beauty question. Beacon Press, 1995.
Lawrence, Marilyn. Fed Up and Hungry: Women, Oppression, and Food (London, 1987).
Lonstein, Ann. "Breast Cancer and Body Image", Melpomene Journal 13, 1 (Spring 1994), 9.
Lopez, Ester., Blix, Glen-Garry. & Blix, Arlene Gray. "Body Image of Latinas Compared to Body Image of Non-Latina White Women", Health Values 19, 6 (1995), 3-10.
Lowe, Margaret A. "From Robust Appetites to Calorie Counting: The Emergence of Dieting Among Smith College Students in the 1920s", Journal of Women’s History 7, 4 (1995), 37-61.
Manlowe, Jennifer l. Faith Born of Seduction: Sexual Trauma, Body Image, and Religion (New York, 1995).
Markula, Pirkko. "Firm but Shapely, Fit but Sexy, Strong but Thin: The Postmodern Aerobicizing Female Bodies", Sociology of Sport Journal 12, 4 (1995), 424-453.
Martz, Denise M., Handley, Kevin B. & Eisler, Richard M. "The Relationship Between Feminine Gender Role Stress , Body Image and Eating Disorders", Psychology of Women Quarterly 19 (1995), 493-508.
McAllister, Renee. & Caltabiano, Marie Louise. "Self-Esteem, Body Image, and Weight in Non-Eating Disordered Women", Psychological Reports 75 (1994), 1339-1343.
McKinley, Nita Mary. & Hyde, Janet Shibley. "The Objectified Body Consciousness Scale", Psychology of Women Quarterly 20, 2 (1996), 181-215.
McMullin, Janet Lee. "The Effects of Physical Stereotypes of Males and Females in Media on Body Image and Self-Esteem", DAI 45, 7 (1985): 1903-1904-A
Mellican, R. Eugene. "Breast Implants, The Cult of Beauty, and a Culturally Constructed ‘Disease’", Journal of Popular Culture 28, 4 (1995), 7-17.
Monteath, Sheryl A. & McCabe, Marita P. "The Influence of Societal Factors on Female Body Image:, The Journal of Social Psychology 137 (December 1997), 708-727.
Morgan, David and Sue Scott. Body matters: essays on the sociology of the body. Falmer Press, 1993.
Morris, A., Cooper, T. & Cooper, P.J. "The Changing Shape of Female Fashion Models", International Journal of Eating Disorders 8 (1989), 593-596.
Myers, Philip N. Jr. & Biocca, Frank A. "The Elastic Body Image: The Effect of Television Advertising and Programming on Body Image Distortions in Young Women", Journal of Communication 42, 3 (1992), 108-133. .
Norton, Kevin I., Olds, Timothy S. & Olive, Scott. "Ken and Barbie at Life Size", Sex Roles 35 (1996), 287-294.
Ontario Symposium on Personality and Social Psychology, C. Peter Herman, Mark P. Zanna, and E. Tory Higgins. Physical appearance, stigma, and social behaviour: the Ontario Symposium, volume 3. L. Erlbaum Associates, 1986.
Parker, Sheila. et al. "Body Image and Weight Concerns Among African American and White Adolescent Females: Differences that Make a Difference", Human Organization 54, 2 (Summer 1995), 103-114.
Perkins, Karen R. "The Influence of Television Images on Black Females’ Self-Perceptions of Physical Attractiveness", Journal of Black Psychology 22, 4 (1996), 453-469.
Phelps, LeAdelle., Johnson, Lisa Swift. & Jimenez, Dayana P. "Figure Preference, Body Dissatisfaction, and Body Distortion in Adolescence", Journal of Adolescent Research 8, 3 (1993), 297-310.
Polivy, J. "Psychological Effects of Mastectomy on a Woman’s Feminine Self-Concept", Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 164 (1977), 77-87.
Poulton, Terry. No Fat Chicks: How Big Business Profits by Making Women Hate Their Bodies –and How to Fight Back (Secaucus, N.J., 1997).
Poulton, Terry. No Fat Chicks: How Women are Brainwashed to Hate Their Bodies and Spend Their Money (Toronto, 1996).
Price, B. "Living With Altered Body Image: The Cancer Experience", British Journal of Nursing 1 (1992), 641-645.
Raudenbush, Bryan. & Zellner, Debra A. "Nobody’s Satisfied: Effects of Abnormal Eating Behaviors and Actual Perceived Weight Status on Body Image Satisfaction in Males and Females", Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 16, 1 (Spring 1997), 95-110.
Reaby, Linda L., Hort, Linda K. & Vandervord, John. "Body Image, Self-Concept, and Self-Esteem in Women Who Had a Mastectomy and Either Wore an External Breast Prosthesis or had Breast Reconstruction and Women Who had not Experienced Mastectomy", Health Care for Women International 15, 5 (1994), 361-375.
Ressler, Adrienne. "Reclaiming the Body", Newsletter of the American Anorexia-Bulimia Association Inc. (Winter 1997), 4-5.
Rice, C. "Society’s Obsession With Thinness", National Eating Disorders Information Center Bulletin (February 1988), 1-3.
Rich, Susan Lawrence. "The Bathing Suit Syndrome", Radience- The Magazine for Large Women 10, 3 (Summer 1993), 6.
Rich, Susan Lawrence. "When Women Stop Hating their Bodies", Radience- The Magazine for Large Women 44 (Fall 1995), 20.
Rieves, Laura. & Cash, Thomas F. "Social Development Factors and Women’s Body Image Attitudes", Journal of Social Behavior and Personality 11, 1(1996), 63-78.
Rooks, Noliwe. Hair raising: beauty, culture, and African American women. Rutgers University Press, 1996.
Rozin, Paul. & Fallon, April. "Body Image, Attitudes to Weight, and Misperceptions of Figure Preferences of the Opposite Sex: A Comparison of Men and Women in Two Generations", Journal of Abnormal Psychology 97 (1988), 342-345.
Salkin, Jeri. Body Ego Technique: An Educational and Therapeutic Approach to Body Image and Self Identity (Springfield, 1973).
Salter, Mave. Altered Body Image: The Nurse’s Role (New York, 1988).
San Francicso Cancer Symposium. Body Image, Self-Esteem, and Sexuality in Cancer Patients (New York, 1980).
Schover, L.P. "The Impact of Breast Cancer on Sexuality, Body Image, and Intimate Relationships", Cancer 41 (1991), 112-120.
Seid, Roberta Pollack. Never too thin: why women are at war with their bodies. Prentice Hall Press, 1991.
"Self-Esteem, Is There Ever Enough?’, Midlife Woman 1, 4 (1992), 1-4.
Shontz, Franklin C. Perceptual and cognitive aspects of body experience. Academic Press, 1969.
Silverstein, B. et al. "The Role of the Mass Media in Promoting a Thin Standard of Bodily Attractiveness for Women", Sex Roles 14 (1986), 519-532.
Siman, Ken. The Beauty Trip (New York, 1995).
Slade, P.D. "A Review of Body Image Studies in Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa", Journal of Psychiatric Research 19, (1985), 255-265.
Slade, P.D. "Body Image Distortion: A Review of the Literature", BASH Magazine 9, 7 (July 1990), 196-197, 222.
Slade, Peter David. "What is Body Image?", Behavior Research and Therapy 32 (1994), 497-502.
Snyder, Rita. & Hasbrouck, Lynn. "Feminist Identity, Gender Traits, and Symptoms of Disturbed Eating Among College Women", Psychology of Women Quarterly 20, 4 (1996), 593-598.
Spillman, Diana Marie. & Everington, Caroline. "Somatotypes Revisited: Have the Media Changed our Perception of the Female Body Image?", Psychological Reports 64 (1989), 887-890.
Spitzack, Carole. Confessing excess: women and the politics of body reduction. SUNY series in gender and society. SUNY Press, 1990.
Stearns, Peter N. Fat history: bodies and beauty in the modern west. NYU Press, 1996.
Steele, Valerie. Fashion and eroticism: ideals of feminine beauty from the Victorian era to the Jazz Age. Oxford University Press, 1985.
Surrey, Janet L., Miller, Jean Baker. & Kaplan, Alexandra. "Colloquium: Eating Patterns as a Reflection of Women’s Development", Work in Progress (1984), 83-106, 1-8.
Thapan, Meenakshi. "Femininity and Culture: Public Images and Private Perceptions", International Sociological Association, New Delhi, India, 1994.
Thompson, J.K. Body Image Disturbance: Assessment and Treatment (New York, 1990).
Thompson, J. Kevin. Body Image, Eating Disorders, and Obesity: An Integrative Guide for Assessment and Treatment (Washington, 1996).
Thornton, Bill. & Maurice, Jason. "Physique Contrast Effect: Adverse Impact of Idealized Body Images for Women", Sex Roles 37 (September 1997), 433-439.*
Tiggemann, Marika. & Pickering, Amanda S. "Role of Television in Adolescent Women’s Body Dissatisfaction and Drive for Thinness", International Journal of Eating Disorders 20 (1996), 199-203.
Turner, Sherry L., Hamilton, Heather. & Jacobs, Meija. "The Influence of Fashion Magazines on the Body Image Satisfaction of College Women: An Exploratory Analysis", Adolescence 32 (Fall 1997), 603-614.*
Ussher, Jane M. The Psychology of the Female Body (London; New York, 1989).
Van Dusen, Julia. Body Image and Perceptual Dysfunction in Adults (Philadelphia, 1993).
Waldfogel, Sabra. "The Body Beautiful, The Body Hateful: Feminine Body Image and the Culture of Consumption in 20th Century America", DAI 47, 8 (1987): 3171-A.
Waller, G., Hamilton, K., & Shaw, J. "Media Influences on Body Size Estimation in Eating Disordered and Comparison Women", British Review of Bulimia and Anorexia Nervosa 6 (1992), 81-87.
Wepsic, Rebecca M. "Cosmetic Surgery and Images of Aging Women: Constructing Differences by Race and Class", Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, 1996.
White, Jane H. & Schroeder, Mary Ann. "Femininity, Image, Feminism, and a Decision to Seek Treatment in Obese Women", Health Care for Women International 7, 6 (1986), 455-467.
Wiseman, C.V., Gray, J.J., Mosimann, J.E., & Ahrens, A.H. "Cultural Expectations of Thinness in Women: An Update", International Journal of Eating Disorders 11 (1990), 85-89.
Woodman, Marion. Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride: A Psychological Study (Toronto, 1982).
Wooley, Susan., Fallon, Patricia. & Katzman, Melanie. Eds. Feminist Perspectives on Eating Disorders (New York, 1994).
Wooley, S.C. & Wooley, O.W. "Feeling Fat in a Thin Society", Glamour (February 1994), 198-252.
Young, Iris, Marion. Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays in Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory (Bloomington, 1990).
Lambton Health Unit, Ten Steps to a Healthy Body Image, online, available: http://www.sarnia.com/groups/lhu/youth/10steps.htm
