Web Directory

» AdiosBarbie.com
   Articles, features, news and polls on a variety of body image topics.
   http://www.adiosbarbie.com

» Bella Online: Body Image
   Articles and forum devoted to improving self-esteem by developing a better body image.
   http://bodyimage.bellaonline.com

» Body Image
   This is an useful, informative website that uncovers the issue of body image, why women have become preoccupied with their appearance, and how the media reflects upon these.
   http://www.freewebs.com/body_image/

» Body Image Health
   Promoting healthy body image attitudes. Preventing eating and weight concerns.
   http://www.bodyimagehealth.org

» Body Positive
   Features articles, forums, psychological exercises, activism ideas, and resources.
   http://www.bodypositive.com/

» Cognitive Behavior Therapy as a Treatment for Body Image Dissatisfaction
   Brief overview of a report by Vanderbilt University's psychology department, exploring cognitive behavior therapy as treatment for body image dissatisfaction.
   http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/psychology/health_psychology/BI_Therapy.htm

» Council on Size and Weight Discrimination
   Articles, links and resources on discrimination and media images, with information about how to become a media-watch volunteer.
   http://www.cswd.org/

» Does Your Daughter Have a Positive Body Image?
   Teenage girls tend to struggle with body image in far greater numbers than boys.
   http://parentingteens.about.com/cs/bodyimage/a/bodyimage5.htm

» I Am Beautiful
   Aiming to promote self-esteem through self-discovery. Includes excerpts and ordering for the book and video, resources including a quiz, messageboard and links.
   http://www.iambeautiful.com

» Male Body Image
   Brief article examining the idea of male bodily perfection.
   http://www.infoplease.com/spot/mbi2.html

» Mirror, Mirror
   From the Social Issues Research Center, a summary of findings on body image.
   http://www.sirc.org/publik/mirror.html

» NPR : Beauty Series, Part 1: Setting the Beauty Agenda
   NPR's Susan Stamberg talks with Linda Wells, editor of Allure magazine about the magazine, its coverage of beauty issues, and how it chooses what goes on the cover. [6:10 Realaudio broadcast]
   http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1958117

» NPR : Beauty Series, Part 2: Pitching Beauty to Teens
   Jean Kilbourne, author of Can't Buy My Love -- How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel, says the media have created an ideal of beauty for young girls that is dangerously unachievable. Kilbourne speaks with NPR's Susan Stamberg in the second in
   http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1968820

» Short Persons Support
   Provides support and reference material to persons of short stature and creates a forum to teach people about the social issues of being short.
   http://www.shortsupport.org

» The Body Burden - Living in the Shadow of Barbie
   Information about and reviews of the book by Stacey Handler, granddaughter of the woman who created the Barbie doll, in which she openly discloses her own battle with her body image.
   http://www.bodyburden.com

» The Psychology of Ideal Body Image
   Article by Barbara A. Cohen, Ph.D. examining the psychology of the idealized body.
   http://www.healingthehumanspirit.com/pages/body_img.htm

» bOObs: A Guide to Your Girls
   Celebrate your breasts: health and cancer issues to breastfeeding and cosmetic surgery.
   http://booksonboobs.com