![]() ![]() She is the author of The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. Joan Jacobs Brumberg is a professor at Cornell University, where she has been teaching history, human development, and women's studies for over twenty years. Her most recent projects include the viral hit #likeagirl and Generation Wealth. She is also the director of the award-winning films THIN, kids + money, Beauty CULTure, and The Queen of Versailles. THIN is the centerpiece of a multi-faceted campaign designed to explore issues surrounding body image and eating disorders, including a companion book, traveling exhibition of Greenfield’s work and a website. Her photographs, including the monographs Girl Culture, Fast Forward, and THIN, have been widely published, exhibited, and collected by leading museums around the world. The film mostly revolves around four women with anorexia nervosa and/or bulimia and their struggles for recovery. Lauren Greenfield is an internationally acclaimed photographer and documentary filmmaker. With more than 100 mesmerizing photographs, 18 interviews, and an introduction by social and cultural historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg, this book is as vital and relevant now as when it was first published. With an eye for both the common and the eccentric, she visits girls of all ages, discussing issues ranging from eating disorders and self-mutilation to spring break and prom. ![]() ![]() Greenfield's award-winning photographs capture the ways in which girls are affected by American popular culture. Revealing and insightful, Lauren Greenfield's classic monograph on the lives of American girls is back in print. ![]()
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