A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings..

Not that it was Twiggy's fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be skinny, flat-chested with….

Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, ….

Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect..

I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style..

Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved in the productio….

No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune ….

Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - ….

Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial..

If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't ….

Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue..

I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'..

I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old ki….

I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem fro….

Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension to dr….

Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper ….

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim..

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt..

... within every form of oppression lies the seeds of liberation..

We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness..

In general, the Western body has become a global brand..