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The Naked Truth about Women, Body Image and Re-imagining the "Perfect" Body
Perseus Books Group
May 2006
239 pages
ISBN: 0738210420
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Self-Help
A riveting peek behind the locker room door of a beauty
obsessed culture that reveals what women really think about
their bodies "I wish my thighs were smaller." "If only I
could lose ten pounds." A wake-up call for any woman who has
engaged in the "if only" wishing game, Locker Room
Diaries uses the unique lens of the locker room to
reveal what, exactly, goes into "shaping" not just a woman's
body but her body image. The locker room can be a
wondrous retreat, a place to toss aside the worries of the
day, but it is also where our flaws become most apparent-and
where most of us can't help but wonder how we "measure up."
Often dressed in no more than a towel, Leslie Goldman spent
five years talking with women of all shapes and sizes about
their body image, from taut twenty-somethings to heavyset
seniors. Why is it, she asks, that almost no one seems
satisfied with her physique? From compulsive workouts to
daily dates with the scale, from bikini waxes to body fat
measurements, American women are swept up in a constant
quest for the "perfect" body. Thankfully, more than one
woman reveals how she halted her cycle of self-loathing and
learned to like her body as is. Blending expert
opinion with wonderfully intimate, often laugh-outloud,
confidences, Locker Room Diaries will inspire anyone
who knows the highs of exercise to leave the lows of
self-esteem behind-and, most especially, once and for all,
to step off that scale!
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