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The page references in this index correspond to the printed edition from which this ebook was created. To find a specific word or phrase from the index, please use the search feature of your ebook reader.
abortion, 134, 158–159, 218, 219
About Face
, 237
actresses, 288
adolescence, 192, 248
anorexia and, 201–213
of author, 201–207
of boys vs. girls, 156–157
sexual behavior in, 156–157, 162–168
adultery, punishment of, 220
advertising, 11, 15, 226, 276–277, 277–278, 307
n
–308
n
of cosmetic surgery, 233, 234, 248
Rites of Beauty and, 101, 103–104, 108–109, 112–119
sex in, 132–133
in women’s magazines, 62, 64–67, 73–84, 305
n
, 307
n
Africa, 13, 190, 295
n
female circumcision in, 243–244
age, aging, 13, 14, 38, 42, 54
of men, 93–94
Rites of Beauty and, 105–106, 110–111, 121
TV journalism and, 35–37
women’s magazines and, 82–84
AIDS, 115, 134–135, 159, 167–168, 182, 241
airbrushing, 82–83
Alcott, Louisa May, 60
Alice Through the Microscope
(Brighton Women and Science Group), 255
American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, 95
American Anorexia and Bulimia Association, 181–182
American Board of Plastic Surgery, 241
American dream, beauty and, 28, 29
American Medical Association, 227, 239
American Society of Plastic and
Reconstructive Surgery, 237
Andre
v.
Bendix Corporation
, 39
animals, sexual behavior of, 13, 132, 311
n
anorexic/pornographic generation, 214–217, 280
anorexics, anorexia, 123, 162, 181–183, 197–199, 201–208
deaths from, 182
defined, 183
medical effects of, 183
sex and, 193
statistics on, 181–183
theories of, 188–189
Another Woman, 75
anxiety, 16–18, 69, 97
women’s magazines and, 62
work and, 30
appearance:
behavior vs., 14
double standard of, 34, 35, 48–52
of men, 34, 35, 43–45, 48–49
shifting views on appropriateness of, 42, 44
see also
beauty myth, beauty; clothes; cosmetic surgery
Appel, Willa, 100, 107–108, 122, 123, 125–128
appetite, prohibition of, 97–98
Arendt, Hannah, 210
art, images of women in, 184
Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (Great Britain), 237
Attie, Ilana, 196, 229, 320
n