Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id gB9M2QX04568; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 17:02:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 17:02:26 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <646C0C00-0BC1-11D7-89DA-000393ABE4D2@litwomen.org> Errors-To: alcrsb@langate.gsu.edu Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "mev@litwomen.org" <mev@litwomen.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:2421] Fwd: A new website and book for teen girls! X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.548) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 2240 Lines: 59 Begin forwarded message: > From: "Audrey D. Brashich" <abrashich@YAHOO.COM> > Date: Thu Dec 5, 2002 7:53:06 PM US/Eastern > To: WMST-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU > Subject: A new website and book for teen girls! > Reply-To: "Women's Studies List" <WMST-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU> > > Cultureofmodeling.com is a new site for teen girls that gets them > thinking > about WHERE their interest in modeling comes from, WHAT it means in a > cultural context, and HOW to make changes--starting with themselves. > > The site (and the forthcoming book titled Don't Get Caught in the > Shadow of the Supermodels! Figuring Out the Culture of Modeling) is > already > endorsed by the Eating Disorders Information Network > (www.edin-ga.org), which is > calling it "a catalyst for teen activism." In addition, Leora > Tanenbaum, author of Slut: Growing up Female with a Bad Reputation and > Catfight: > Women and Competition, believes the website and book will help "save > the souls of the next generation of teen girls." And eating disorder > expert Margo Maine, PhD, author of Body Wars:Making Peace With > Women's Bodies: An Activist's Guide and Father Hunger: Fathers, > Daughters > and Food, is calling the project "an outstanding resource for girls and > those who care about them. It explains the allure, the power, and the > false promises of this business that destroys the self confidence, > identity, and health of far too many [girls]." Finally, the project is > also > endorsed by professors at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island > and Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass, where the book will be used as > a reference in pop culture/feminist theory classes. > > So if you work with teens who are dazzled by modeling, or their > parents, direct them to www.cultureofmodeling.com so that a discussion > on this important topic gets started! > > For more information please contact Audrey D. Brashich, creator of > www.cultureofmodeling.com, at Audrey@cultureofmodeling.com > > > > > Audrey D. Brashich > Freelance Writer/Research Editor > email:ABrashich@yahoo.com > desk: (310) 577-0962 mobile:(310) 463-0916 > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now >
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