Stop the mutilation of women’s bodies for profit! If you missed ABC Four Corners searing expose of Australia’s cosmetic surgery industry and its callous disregard for the health and wellbeing of women, you really should take a look. You will see how the cosmetic surgery industry preys on the body angst of vulnerable women and […]
I’m very pleased to be speaking here today on this historic occasion. It has been customary for the west to bemoan and critique the appalling forms of violence practiced against girls and women in the rest of the world – FGM, rape as a tactic of war, forced marriage. In this focus what has been […]
Dr Michael Carr-Gregg and MTR discuss on Sunrise A UK survey, commissioned by UK charity YWCA Central, has found half of all girls and a third of boys are obsessed with body image. According to a report in the Daily Mail this week, children are willing to take extreme measures to get a perfect body or […]
Two young women dead thanks to the fetishisation of female body parts British woman Claudia Aderotimi was only 20 when she died last week after travelling to the US for a procedure to give her a bigger ‘booty’. She paid more than £1000 ($1600 AUD) for silicone injections to give her the look she thought […]
The latest category of women targeted for cutting “Your quest to be the perfect bride has ended. Your wedding will still go on, it just won’t be perfect”. In the latest in a long-line degrading reality shows which both generate then prey on female insecurity comes Bridalplasty, billed as “The only reality show where the […]
Or leave you permanently disfigured “It’s an industry that has developed in health care which has nothing to do with health care” – Prof Merrilyn Walton If you didn’t see 60 Minutes segment ‘The Beauty Trap’ on Sunday night, here it is: [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/14564687[/vimeo] The program tells the tragic story of Lauren James, who died three […]
