Book Takes Beauty Obsession to Extremes Far Beyond Botox or Eye Jobs
Greta Van Susteren, Botox, new cosmetic surgeries...What's next in the obsession with youth and beauty? The author of IT'S MY BODY AND I'LL CRY IF I WANT TO takes the pursuit of beauty to new extremes through the cosmetic adventures of a journalist who infiltrates an elite beauty clinic to uncover a potentially lethal beauty treatment, in a novel that could boost your self-esteem when you look in a mirror. In fact, writing IT'S MY BODY changed the way the author looks in her own mirror.
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March 18, 2002 - Book Takes Beauty Obsession to Extremes Far Beyond Botox or Eye Jobs
Are women more fixated on their looks than ever? Is there an easy way to stop being part of this unhealthy cultural obsession?
In the aftermath of Greta Van Susteren's recent cosmetic surgery, commentators groused that the newswoman was supposed to be way too smart to care much about how she looked - as if, in having an eye job, she'd let other women down. But why pick on Greta? Let's be realistic: this is a world in which Botox could soon be freezing the face of every other soccer mom in a minivan.
The author of a novel about the pursuit of beauty would not be quite so tough on women who use technology to improve their looks. Self acceptance is complicated and difficult and Sharleen Jonasson came far closer to her own only by wrestling with the issues through a fictional female journalist who investigates an elite beauty clinic, in a novel that's been called "...wry, intelligent and objective, poking fun at an industry where others might have been tempted to uncover a soapbox." (January Magazine)
Though she's never gone under the cosmetic knife, Jonasson, in her mid-40s, sees more than one side of the contentious issue of female beauty. The catalyst for the novel "It's My Body and I'll Cry If I Want To" was her ambivalence about her own looks. "Like many boomer women, I grew up with a Ms. in one hand and a Glamour in the other. You can be disgusted with media images of female beauty and still have a deep desire to be more like the babes in the magazines."
In "It's My Body," lapsed feminist and journalist Beth Middleton is assigned to infiltrate an elite beauty clinic to uncover a potentially lethal beauty treatment. Undercover, she tries out several treatments. Despite being able to write them off, both financially and logically, as part of her job, she can't shake her unease over succumbing to the call of beauty -- though she has to admit her new eyes look great. Beauty is a dilemma, one that grows more complicated as she investigates an institution devoted to improving appearances, in which many things are not what they appear to be at all. In this fictional world, women with faces numbed with Botox are nothing!
Written by a freelance journalist who's not exactly fond of the bags emerging under her own eyes but who's still happy being able to frown, "It's My Body and I'll Cry If I Want To" can be ordered through all major online booksellers or through bookstores.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sharleen Jonasson is a business journalist who has written for magazines, newspapers and corporate publications, in print and online, in the U. S., Canada, and Europe. Her short fiction has been published in Mississippi Review and Blue Fiction. This is her first novel.
ABOUT THE BOOK
It's My Body And I'll Cry If I Want To, by Sharleen Jonasson
Published September 2001
ISBN 0-9687094-0-0
232 pages, trade paper, US$14.99/CAN$23.99
Distributed by Ingram
