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Summary: This book is excellent!
Review: This is a great eye opening book! Great for resources and information about how we as a society harm our bodies and our lives. It also gives helpful suggestions and ideas for activism to fight the war against believing we are only about our bodies. Many statistics and helpful information, yet written in an interesting and easy to follow format. Buy it! You'll love it!
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Summary: A must read book for all women
Review: `Body Wars' is both an excellent reference and an interesting book. It reads like a collection of essays with a unifying theme and is a must have particularly for young women. This book is not only for overweight women but for women who feel like they do not measure up to the supermodel ideal. It has chapters that delve into magazine advertising and its effect on women, weightism, which is the politically correct form of prejudice among other things. But unlike most books of this type it does not only tell us what is wrong but it tells us how to change what's wrong. The author Margo Maine, Ph.D. does this through her resource lists at the end of each chapter that has phone numbers, addresses and names of places like the MS. Foundation and the Center for Media Literacy among other things.
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