The House of Beauty: Lessons from the Image Industry

Arabelle Sicardi

The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work

Miliann Kang

Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women

Renee Engeln

Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease

Carolyn Day

Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry

Stacy Malkan

Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

Lindy West

Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

Da’Shaun Harrison

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

Sabrina Strings

The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care

Rina Raphael

Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating

Christy Harrison

Beauty Junkies: Inside Our $15 Billion Obsession with Cosmetic Surgery

Alex Kuczynski

Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery

Kathy Davis

Buying Beauty: Cosmetic Surgery in China

Wen Hua

Face Value: The Hidden Ways Beauty Shapes Women's Lives

Autumn Whitefield-Madrano

Killer Looks: The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in Prisons

Zara Stone

Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards

Alka Vaid Menon

Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery

Elizabeth Haiken

Unshaved: Resistance and Revolution in Women's Body Hair Politics

Breanne Fahs

Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West

Sheila Jeffreys

All I Ever Wanted Was to Be Hot

Lucinda 'Froomes' Price

The Beauty Myth

Naomi Wolf

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Jia Tolentino

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Roxane Gay