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LEARN MORE ABOUT BODY IMAGE
‘Embrace’: A lot of women
aren’t happy with their bodies.
They don’t feel good enough
because their shape doesn’t
match some unattainable ideal.
“Lose weight, eliminate
wrinkles, fight cellulite.
We’re constantly forced to
become someone else,” says
Taryn Brumfitt, the Australian
founder of The Body Image
Movement. With her documentary,
‘Embrace’, she hopes to
contribute to a more positive
body image in women.
‘Suddenly, My Body’: American
Poet, feminist and activist
Eve Ensler always lived in
her head. In a poetic speech
for TEDWomen (available on
YouTube), she talks about the
distance she always felt to
her body, and how her work
in the Congo and her illness
helped her to get in touch
again with reality and the
embodiment of being human.UNHAPPY ABOUT YOUR BODY?
VISITA MUSEUM
In her book ‘Schön!’, German
philosopher Rebekka Reinhard writes
that we particularly like what we are
conditioned to like, what is familiar
to us. And the fewer things we are
exposed to, the harder it is to judge
what’s beautiful and what’s not.
Reinhard writes that beauty is very
much like food: Only someone with
lots of culinary experience can judge
whether a poached goose liver terrine
with pears, kohlrabi and smoked pigeon
breast goes better with a beer or a
Riesling wine. According to her, you
can develop your skills of discernment
with regard to your own body by going
to museums more often. Borrow the
eyes of an artist—Rubens for example.
For him, large bodies do not signal
plumpness, but opulence, an open
mind, a carefree spirit and
joyfulness. If you can see that,
Reinhard argues, you will also look
at your own body in a friendlier and
less inflexible manner.