In psychology, person's perception of the aesthetics or sexual attractiveness of their own body

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Two Russian valets are tightening ties around a young officer's waist as a third man brings a uniform for him to wear. Coloured etching, 1815.

ICA Talks : AIDS: the cultural agenda / director of talks, Erica Carter.

Schooled on fat : what teens tell us about gender, body image, and obesity / Nicole Taylor.

Minding muscle : the technologies of bodybuilding from the turn-of-the-century machine-man to the new millennium's ULTRAGIRL / by Jacqueline Brady.

I have a body / [Charlie Zines].

The secret life of fat : the science behind the body's greatest puzzle / Sylvia Tara.

Women and disability : the experience of physical disability among women / Susan Lonsdale.

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Schooled on fat : what teens tell us about gender, body image, and obesity / Nicole Taylor.

Minding muscle : the technologies of bodybuilding from the turn-of-the-century machine-man to the new millennium's ULTRAGIRL / by Jacqueline Brady.

I have a body / [Charlie Zines].

The secret life of fat : the science behind the body's greatest puzzle / Sylvia Tara.

Women and disability : the experience of physical disability among women / Susan Lonsdale.