Body positive movement

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The body positive movement, also known as body positivity, is a set of theories and beliefs about dismantling the rigid aesthetic standards for the body Western culture has.

As the movement has developed extremely recently, in 2012 and overwhelmingly on-line, "there is [little] current scholarship specifically investigating the body positive movement".

See also

• Fat acceptance movement

External links

• Towards a Radical Body Positive: Reading the Online “Body Positive Movement” Feminist Media Studies, by Alexandra Sastre

References

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