Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Kite, Lexie, author.

Title More than a body : your body is an instrument, not an ornament / Lexie Kite, PhD and Lindsay Kite, PhD.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2020]
©2021

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  306.4613 KITE    DUE 04-29-24
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  306.4 KIT    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  306.4613 KITE    DUE 04-20-24
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  306.4613 KITE    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  306.4613 KITE    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  306.4613 KIT    Check Shelf
Description 346 pages ; 22 cm
Note "2020"--Title page. ©2021--Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references ([329]-338) and index.
Summary Positive body image isn't believing your body looks good; it is knowing your body is good, regardless of how it looks. How do you feel about your body? Have you ever stayed home from a social activity or other opportunity because of concern about how you looked? Have you ever passed judgment on someone because of how they looked or dressed? Have you ever had difficulty concentrating on a task because you were self-conscious about your appearance? Our beauty-obsessed world perpetuates the idea that happiness, health, and ability to be loved are dependent on how we look, but authors Lindsay and Lexie Kite offer an alternative vision. With insights drawn from their extensive body image research, Lindsay and Lexie--PhDs and founders of the nonprofit Beauty Redefined (and also twin sisters!)--lay out an action plan that arms you with the skills you need to reconnect with your whole self and free yourself from the constraints of self-objectification.
Contents Rising with body image resilience -- Critiquing and creating your media environment -- From self-objectification to self-actualization -- From divided to united as women -- Reclaiming health and fitness for yourself -- A resilient reunion.
Subject Body image.
Beauty, Personal -- Psychological aspects.
Self-esteem in women.
Identity (Psychology)
Beauty, Personal -- Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst00829403
Body image. (OCoLC)fst00835344
Identity (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst00966892
Self-esteem in women. (OCoLC)fst01111709
Added Author Kite, Lindsay, author.
Added Title Your body is an instrument, not an ornament
Other Form: Online version: Kite, Lexie. More than a body Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. 9780358226819 (DLC) 2020034217
ISBN 9780358229247 (hardback)
0358229243 (hardback)
-->
Add a Review