Over the past decades, researchers have demonstrated the negative effects of body shaming and self–objectification on our mental health. People who experience body shaming, for example through ...

In a recent interview, actress Cameron Diaz controversially said, "I think every woman does want to be objectified." Decades of research have documented the many ways that objectification can be ...

Since The Second Sex, feminist analyses of Western beauty standards in women have highlighted three currents: 1) self-objectification; 2) the thinness ideal; 3) the role of media in perpetuating ...