Hi! Along this line and in terms of body image, etc. the book "Reviving
Ophelia" by Mary Pipher is a good read - despite a couple of theoretical
problems I have
with it, the author does bring to light many of the manners in which body
image comes to be constructed and the manners in which the lives of young
girls come to be affected by media images, etc.
Jessica
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I agree, Teri, this manufactured body-image distortion is massive and almost
> subintentional to distract bright, intelligent, ambitious people from applying
> their energies towards their desires and instead applying it towards
> appearances. It's ugly and must be assaulted. If enough people realized how
> ugly it was, it wouldn't need laws to stop it. People would simply rip up such
> images as they stood in front of them, paintball billboards. If this happened
> on a massive scale, they'd stop making the things. But we have a very passive
> public at present, for whom direct action is a foreign idea. That's a shame ;
> for then we have to pass through the mediation of democratic channels which is
> an obstacle placed in the way of direct action by the corporations.
>
> (un)leash
>
