Eye on Diversity Film Series - Beauty Mark: Body Image & the Race for Perfection

Facilitators: Michelle Fowler and Tradara Mclaurine, CDP

How do our families influence our relationship with our own bodies? How do American pop culture's standards of beauty get inside our hearts and heads?  In what ways can sport and the drive for fitness actually make us sick rather than healthy?

The DVD features insights from athletes, bodybuilders, fashion models, and inner-city teens.  Diane Israel explores American culture's unhealthy preoccupation with thinness, beauty, and physical perfection. Beauty Mark provides crucial insights into the relationship between media culture, and gender norms.