The Body Project Brumberg Analysis

Joan Jacobs Brumberg is the author of The Body Project, which to my understanding (I did not have time to read the book) is an explanation of today’s health risks being posed by such things as America’s beauty industry and “our own cultural uncovering of the female body globally[...]”(Brumberg and Jackson 194). Together, with Jacqulyn Jackson (whom I found very little information on), they wrote a newspaper article on the hot topic of modesty and the impact America’s beauty standards have on women in today’s culture. These women feel as if America’s beauty industry is creating not only ridiculous, but deadly “standards” for today’s female youth. They take a very authoritarian tone throughout their argument. Using deductive logic, the article is brief, short and sweet if you would; although, as a reader I can’t help but be hungry for more information. Their claim: “The irony is that the images of sleek, bare women in …show more content…
One of these forms of advertising is modeling. Ask most American girls who they want to be when they grow up and a majority will name a celebrity that they admire. These women, who are role models for the female American youth, are usually very thin, overly perfect, meticulously sculpted works of art. They are in no way close to an average American middle class woman. In the article, the authors claim that this incline of perfect role models is not only having a negative effect on America 's female mental health as a whole, but it is also posing a major risk to female 's physical health. Lightly continuing on to say that "many behaviors made attractive by popular media, including eating disorders, teen smoking, drinking, and the depression and anxiety disorders that can occur when one does not measure up are taking a major toll on female health and well-being" (Brumberg and Jackson 194). That statement is about as clear as they