Contributors

Acknowledgments

I. Introduction and Assessment

Objectification Theory: An Introduction
Rachel M. Calogero, Stacey Tantleff-Dunn, and J. Kevin Thompson

Operationalizing Self-Objectification: Assessment and Related Methodological Issues
Rachel M. Calogero

II. Sexual and Self-Objectification

The Sexualization of Girls and Women as a Primary Antecedent of Self-Objectification
Linda Smolak and Sarah K. Murnen

The Birthmark: An Existential Account of the Objectification of Women
Jamie L. Goldenberg and Tomi-Ann Roberts

Continuity and Change in Self-Objectification: Taking a Life-Span Approach to Women's Experiences of Objectified Body Consciousness
Nita Mary McKinley

III. Consequences of Self-Objectification

Performance and Flow: A Review and Integration of Self-Objectification Research
Diane M. Quinn, Stephenie R. Chaudoir, and Rachel W. Kallen

Mental Health Risks of Self-Objectification: A Review of the Empirical Evidence for Disordered Eating, Depressed Mood, and Sexual Dysfunction
Marika Tiggemann

IV. Prevention and Disruption of Sexual and Self-Objectification

Embodying Experiences and the Promotion of Positive Body Image: The Example of Competitive Athletics
Jessie E. Menzel and Michael P. Levine

Fighting Self-Objectification in Prevention and Intervention Contexts
Tracy L. Tylka and Casey L. Augustus-Horvath

V. Concluding Remarks

Future Directions for Research and Practice
Rachel M. Calogero, Stacey Tantleff-Dunn, and J. Kevin Thompson

Index

About the Editors

About the Author

Rachel M. Calogero, PhD, is an assistant professor of psychology at Virginia Wesleyan College in Norfolk. She completed her PhD in social psychology in 2007 at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England, where she subsequently held a postdoctoral research fellowship funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

Dr. Calogero has published and presented extensively on self-objectification in women, with particular interest in the environmental and sociocultural antecedents of self-objectification.

Her research also includes investigations of sexist ideology, fat prejudice, disordered eating and exercise practices, and closed-mindedness. As a social psychologist, her interests include an analysis of the sociocultural, social–cognitive, and self processes that contribute to the legitimization of oppressive social practices.

Stacey Tantleff-Dunn, PhD, is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Central Florida. She received her BA from George Washington University in 1989 and her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of South Florida in 1995.

Dr. Tantleff-Dunn joined the faculty at the University of Central Florida in 1996 and founded the Laboratory for the Study of Eating, Appearance, and Health. Her research area is body image, particularly interpersonal and media influences on body image. Her research and clinical work include a focus on interpersonal psychotherapy, particularly as they relate to body image, eating disturbance, and obesity.

Dr. Tantleff-Dunn is coauthor of Exacting Beauty: Theory, Assessment and Treatment of Body Image Disturbance, and she serves on the editorial boards of Body Image: An International Journal of Research and Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention.

She has over 15 years of clinical experience providing direct services and supervision of assessment and psychotherapy for individuals, couples, and families.

J. Kevin Thompson, PhD, is a professor of psychology at the University of South Florida in Tampa. His research interests include body image, eating disorders, and obesity.

He has been an associate editor of Body Image: An International Journal of Research since 2003 and has been on the editorial board of the International Journal of Eating Disorders since 1990. He has authored, coauthored, edited, or coedited eight previous books in the areas of body image, eating disorders, and obesity.

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