Above: Amy Chestnutt (UVA Women's Center, AAUW Charlottesville UVA Member) introduces our panelists. From left: Melanie Brede, Dr. Angela Gray, Dr. Andrea Press.
Above: Dr. Angela Gray, Staff Psychologist and Group Therapy Coordinator at Counseling and Psychological Services presents "It's Complicated: The Relationship between Women and Food."
We had a great turn out for our October meeting on Women, the Media, and Body Image. Thanks to the speakers, Amy Chestnutt for emceeing the event, and everyone who attended and helped to make this a successful event. For those of you who could not make it, a brief summary is below.
Dr. Press introduced the term "to-be-looked-at-ness". With a clip from the movie Vertigo, she illustrated that in movies men do a lot of "looking", whereas the focus is on the effect of the woman-- what she's wearing, what her face looks like, what her body looks like, etc. She says the people making films are unaware of the daily experience of the majority of young women in our culture.
Dr. Gray presented an overview of the history of eating disorders and disordered eating. She describes the relationship between women and food as being similar to the Facebook status "it's complicated," suggesting benefits, but also some degree of unhealthiness. She discussed the importance of seeking specialists and seeking treatment early.
Ms. Brede discussed the "health at every size" paradigm. Here, the focus is on health, not appearance. She explains that dieting is actually harmful and risky to health. Healthy weight is individualized and should not be set by a standardized table. The best part is, health at every size has been empirically tested, and it works!
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