Body Image

The R&B artist refuses to conform to the world's expectations for plus-sized black women, and she creates music as sensual as it is empowering.

McMillan Cottom's new book is a powerful rejoinder to those who want black women to make peace with a marginal status.

New research suggests that cartoon princesses hurt young female viewers by offering them unobtainable ideals of physical perfection.

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

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PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

New research explains why you look so good in that selfie you took at Yellowstone National Park.

The stock photo agency is scrapping Photoshopped images that make models look thinner. Here's how that can help body image.

Does playing with the unrealistically thin and busty doll really harm children?

Maybe for some people—but there's a limit to how much commercial images can do.

In a new book, Amanda M. Czerniawski details how the fashion industry objectifies plus-sized models. But can sociologists avoid doing the same?

Perhaps the most shocking takeaway from the recent study that found playing with Barbies may seriously limit a girl's view of what occupations are open to her is, in a world where we're surrounded by media, how quickly one doll can have a measurable impact.