{"id":527,"date":"2008-01-16T07:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=527"},"modified":"2008-01-16T07:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T12:48:00","slug":"old-issue-new-study-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/01\/16\/old-issue-new-study-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Issue, New Study, New Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/R43ySsASzdI\/AAAAAAAAA3U\/msfpZBLasYo\/s1600-h\/114AOldgr0L.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/R43ySsASzdI\/AAAAAAAAA3U\/msfpZBLasYo\/s320\/114AOldgr0L.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/HEALTH\/diet.fitness\/01\/07\/diet.popularityweight.ap\/index.html#cnnSTCText\">A new study<\/a> finds that girls&#8217; self-image, namely, the extent to which they think they&#8217;re popular, may affect their future weight.  As reported on CNN.com, the study found that &#8220;[t]hose who believed they were unpopular gained more weight over a two-year period than girls who viewed themselves as more popular.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>And meanwhiile, former Miss America swimsuit competition winner and Harvard women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s studies graduate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nancyredd.com\/\">Nancy Redd<\/a> has come out with what sounds like a must-read for today&#8217;s girls.  It&#8217;s a book called <a><span style=\"font-style:italic\">BODY DRAMA: Real Girls, Real Bodies, Real Issues, Real Answers <\/span><\/a>.  As blogger and feminist media studies teacher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.having-enough.com\">Megan Pincus Kajitani<\/a> notes <a href=\"http:\/\/havingenough.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/12\/enough-body-drama-thank-you-nancy-redd\/\">in a recent review<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bottom line, what Nancy Redd says, and shows, girls and women in this book is, in a word, revolutionary.  It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not for the prim our faint-hearted, I warn you. Although I also think those are the ones who may need this book most. Nancy Redd leaves no taboo body topic undiscussed \u00e2\u20ac\u201d or [un]photographed \u00e2\u20ac\u201d in this book, unlike any I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever seen.   (Not at all shocking to this Vagina Monologues veteran, but I have no doubt this book will be burned in certain sectors, like many truth-telling tales before it.)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Redd&#8217;s message?  Embrace your body.  Respect yourself.  Be healthy without striving for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153perfect.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  Sounds like many of us grown-up girls&#8211;myself included&#8211;need this book too.<\/p>\n<p>(For more, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/mother-talk.com\/wp\/?p=259\">blog tour<\/a> going on over at MotherTalk.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study finds that girls&#8217; self-image, namely, the extent to which they think they&#8217;re popular, may affect their future weight. As reported on CNN.com, the study found that &#8220;[t]hose who believed they were unpopular gained more weight over a two-year period than girls who viewed themselves as more popular.&#8221; And meanwhiile, former Miss America [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[400],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}