- Overview
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Are Your peers Your Appearance? is a book that teenage girls and young women will turn to for help in looking after themselves, for it contains stories and messages about how to resist a society that forces them to alter their appearance in order to conform to standard norms of beauty.
- Book Intro
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An introductory guide to feminism, this book explains in a clear and simple way the types and hidden intentions of the “corset” that stifles women in the form of make-up, diet, media, and body measurements. Ecofeminists United, established in 1999, has participated in various activities and projects as an ecofeminist group.
In particular, the project “Are Your Peers Your Appearance?” in 2016 gained a big response from women of various age groups with its timely lectures and practical workshops. This book Are Your Peers Your Appearance? developed the issues further and put together eight “removing your corset” stories for teenage girls and young women who suffer from the double standards and prejudices of Korean society toward them. This book will invite the reader to reflect on why we “remove our corsets” now and provide the reader, who has found it difficult to talk about “decorseting” and about feminist issues, with clear answers and solutions.
- About the Author
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Ecofem
Organized in 1999, Korea Eco Feminist Association strives to find ecological solutions from an eco-feminist perspective and build an equal, sustainable green society. The Association has expanded body diversity activities across society through the campaign “How I look? So what?” which involves body diversity education/camp for teenagers, conferences, and film parties. It also raised the issue of potential harmful impacts of sanitary pads, working to produce “safe pads” and transform menstruation culture. Its books include Living Okay in a Not-So-Okay World; How I look? So What?; Consume Less and Exist More; School Kitchen Garden with Dreams of Nature; and Handmade Sanitary Pads.
