Roberta Seid's "Too Close to the Bone"

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This paper introduces, summarizes and critiques Roberta Seid's article, "Too 'Close to the Bone': The Historical Context for Women's Obsession with Slenderness." The paper analyzes Seid's contention that women have equated extreme thinness with beauty and self worth and takes a look at the health dangers posed by this obsession.

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"In her article "Too Close to the Bone: The Historical Context for Women's Obsession with Slenderness", Roberta Seid offers an interesting analysis of the way in which American women have grown to equate extreme skinniness with beauty and self-worth. Indeed Seid suggests that our'religion' of thinness has given rise to an epidemic of fat phobia. As a result, today's women now believe that skin-and-bones thinness is the physical ideal which must be met in order to be considered beautiful, regardless of the health dangers that it poses to..."

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