As a teen girl, I hear things about self-image almost every day. Whether it is a talk about how Instagram can make girls ...

People are always to trying the chase the idea of beauty. Around the world beauty standards vary. But some countries have very hard and unfair rules about what is beautiful. These rules can hurt ...

In the high-stakes arena of corporate America, millennial Black women are waging a silent war — not for corner offices or stock options, but for the right to be themselves. A groundbreaking study has ...

A new cultural ideal for women is ultrathin and cloaked in the language of inclusivity and self-acceptance. Credit...Illustration by Leonie Bos Supported by By Amanda Hess Recently Instagram led me to ...

Ten women participating in a beauty pageant is nothing new. Some pose candidly, some play to the camera, their beauty forever frozen in this moment in time. Like many other pageants held in countries ...

The beauty pageant industry isn’t what it used to be. Miss Universe, which has been around since 1952, has suffered a dramatic ratings decline in the last five years. In May, the reigning Miss USA and ...

It was 2016 when PhotoVogue dedicated its Festival to the female gaze, questioning the hegemony of the male perspective in the arts, investigating through photography the concept theorised by the film ...

MEN WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND!” screamed my housemate, after we finished watching “The Substance” (2024) — the exact same ...

Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt skewers impossible female beauty standards in a horrific spin on the familiar fairy tale, presented here from the rival's perspective. Named Elvira, the young lady ...