The Marquette Journal

The perfect body has graced the covers of magazines for decades. It’s the body that girls and guys could only dream of having. The one that teenagers and college students post up on their walls to stare at once they enter their bedroom door.
Farrah Fawcett donned a red swimsuit in 1976 that sold more than [...]

We suffer from a centuries old epidemic without giving it a single thought. Side effects have changed over the years, for what once caused 18th century women to constrain themselves in corsets later inspired the 1960s “Twiggy” look and the 1990s “heroin chic.” Despite the body’s ever-changing paradigm of perfection, the ideological makeup of the [...]