The Body Project

I am currently reading a very eloquent and sympathetic book by Joan Jacobs Brumberg, The Body Project. Particularly for her male readers, like myself, it illuminates some of the psychological boundaries that pubescent teenage girls overcome, which rationalizes the obsession teenagers have with their body. Indeed, a girl's body is their primary project. Much of Brumberg's research into women's history comes rightly from diaries; from which she very cleverly discovers: "in talking about their bodies, women still struggle to find a vocabulary that does not rely on Victorian euphemisms, medical nomenclature, or misogynistic slang." Observational simplicity that awakens our consciousness to a new horizon, I think you will agree. Incidentally, I've written a universally readable article on Social Conventions in the Understanding of the Construction of Gender. If you are interested, the .pdf file is located here.