The more material illuminating that feminist exists not because men want to keep women down but because the status quo has an investment in keeping people divided and with diffuse power in order to keep power concentrated, the better.

Self-tanners—also known as one of the few products we buy to make ourselves look less healthy than we are—hit the sweet spot between conspicuous and inconspicuous consumption.

Vibrating text-alert tattoos for all the "early adopters," Putin opposition leaders boycotting Proctor & Gamble, and the long tail of H-cup bras.

What does the "image" part of "body image" really mean?

Makeovers are a key plot point in many a young adult book. So why don't more of them focus on the end goal of the makeover—transcendence?

Links roundup: Rod Blagojevich's prison 'do, eye-gazing parties, chess dress codes, and why green M&Ms make you horny.

"Giving up the mirror is giving up the idea that your own image of yourself is the only image that’s real or even meaningful."

All the world's a stage!

I'm looking for a few good women. (Aren't we all, dahlinghk?)

Miss Iran 1978, criminalizing street harassment, Care Bears in Spanx, and the best British commute for mascara application. (Sheffield, duh.)

The emptiness of the red lipstick campaign to mark International Women's Day is so monumental that it teeters on genius. Put a pout on it!

Five book selections on women and beauty: Simone de Beauvoir, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Linda Grant, John Berger, Aileen Ribeiro.

Earlier this week I shared two Body Image Warrior Week pieces that particularly resonated with me, but I took something valuable from each post I…

Santorum-colored nail polish, the Anti-Flirt Club, ancient funerary cosmetics, and more.

"My clothes are a way of putting up a shield, of saying to the world that the things people might believe about little people aren't true. That's not who I believe I am—this is who I am."