Are Cultural Beauty Standards Contributing to Persistent Health Disparities? BY Erin Billups - National Health Reporter Nationwide. UPDATED 6:30 AM ET Feb. 26, 2020 PUBLISHED 5:00 AM ET Feb. 19 ...

Marilyn Monroe died in 1962, but she embodied a cultural ideal of beauty that persists to this day. Whatever the dominant standards, our culture communicates them virtually everywhere we turn.

I stood in my closet after having my son, feeling defeated. My favorite size 8 jeans no longer fit, and as I made the switch to a size 14, nothing in my wardrobe felt like me anymore. I had ...

Social media pressure. I study beauty and its cultural forces, especially as they apply to young people online. My findings speak to the increasingly important role that beauty plays in shaping ...

Academics are always arguing that our standards of beauty, ... as cultural critic Virginia Postrel pointed out in a BloombergView article about a 2011 auction of movie stars’ gowns.

There is also a significant population of women who may not fit the criteria for a clinical diagnosis but engage in unhealthy and detrimental eating habits to conform to the culturally defined beauty ...

Snapchat and smartphone 'beauty' filters may be distorting our cultural reality. ... snapchat filters promote such unrealistic small-nosed/flawless skin/defined jawline/westernized beauty standards ...

"The Victoria's Secret Angels were perceived as the gold standard of what beauty was supposed to be," clinical psychologist Jenny Yip, PsyD, ABPP, tells POPSUGAR.The models were primarily white ...