Whenever women have made any social gains, whether it's being accepted as athletes or moving into the professions, it's going to be contradicted with an image of woman as small, diminished, reduced, brought back to a childish body. The result… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
Whenever women have made any social gains, whether it's being accepted as athletes or moving into the professions, it's going to be contradicted with… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
it is possible to study fashion the way one can study a work of art, so that it reflects significantly upon the issues and… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
“The sense of an unseen order, brooding attentively over our lives, restores purpose to individual acts of concern.” — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric or symbolic… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
It frequently happens that when the dominant culture loses a vision or actively suppresses it, this lost knowledge arises again among those excluded from… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
a woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life. — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
Science is not neutral in its judgments, nor dispassionate, nor detached. — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
“What unites the women who seek to reduce their weight is the fact that they look for an answer to life's problems in the… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
