A Smart Girl's Guide: Body Image
A Smart Girl's Guide: Body Image: How to Love Yourself, Live Life to the Fullest, and Celebrate All Kinds of Bodies is an American Girl publication in the A Smart Girl's Guides series, focused on body positivity at all sizes, false images and beauty standards, disability rights, gender diversity and expression, body consent, and self esteem.
Contents
Body Image Basics
- The Body Blues
- Quiz: Body Image Check-Up
- Loving Your Body Right Now
- Body Bliss
Your Body
- Shape and Size
- The Skin You're In
- Awesome and Able
- Growing and Flowing
- Gender Joy
- Body Image in Distress
- The One and Only You
Love Your Body
- Eat
- Diet? Don't Try It!
- Step Away From the Scale
- Winner Winner, Family Dinner
- Move It!
- Month of Movement Challenge
- You're the Boss of Your Body
- Dress to Express
- Makeup and More
- Bounce Back
- Quick Fixes
The Background on Beauty
- What's Beauty?
- Picture-Perfect or Phony-Baloney?
- The Dark Side of the Beauty Standard
- Media Makeover
- Be-YOU-tiful
- Follow the Money
- Bogus Beauty Bingo
Celebrate All Bodies
- Put a Stop to Body Talk
- Health Myths
- Body Bullying
- Making Space for Everyone
- Vision Board
- Changing the World Every Day
- Resources
Resources
Listed resources in the book include:
- The Trevor Project and Human Rights Campaign
- GLSEN
- National Eating Disorders Association
- StopBullying.gov
- We Need Diverse Books
- Americans with Disabilities Act and Disability Rights Advocates
- A Smart Girl's Guide: Race and Inclusion
Real Girl Runway
Through the book, five girls are spotlighted through the Real Girl Runway:
- Zoe Terry of Zoe's Dolls, a organization to promote black and brown dolls.
- Ivy Golob, a Deaf, trans, Jewish girl whose first language is American Sign Language (Instagram).
- Kinley Agent, a plus-sized hip-hop dancer with asthma (Instagram).
- Fatima Abdelrahman, a Muslim squash athlete who was confronted in an airport and pressured to remove her headscarf in public, leading to changes in airline policy after her family's public complaints.[1]
- Jordan Reeves, a girl with limb difference who designed a purple glitter-shooting prosthetic called The Glitter Blaster[2] and founder of the organization Born Just Right with her mother
The girls are then shown together in an illustrated image on the last page before Resources.