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Lovejoy finds in her research—which compares the perceptions of body image and eating disorders in black and white women through a literature review—that the strategies (e.g., resistance to mainstream beauty ideals) that black women use to challenge mainstream depictions of female bodies and develop positive self-valuations are often ...
Spencer Woolley Kimball (March 28, 1895 – November 5, 1985) was an American religious leader who was the twelfth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
Suzanne Marie Mahoney was born in San Bruno, California, on October 16, 1946 [3] [4] as the third [5] of four children in a working-class Irish-American Catholic family. [6] Her mother, Marion Elizabeth (née Turner), was a medical secretary, and her father, Francis "Frank" Mahoney, loaded cases of beer onto boxcars, [7] was a laborer and gardener. [1]
Lee Kiefer (/ ˈ k iː f ər / KEE-fər; born June 15, 1994) [1] is an American right-handed foil fencer [2] and three-time Olympic champion in women's foil, having won the individual event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, and the individual and team events at the 2024 Summer Olympics. She is the most decorated women's foil fencer in American history.
Prior to 1977, bodybuilding had been considered strictly a male-oriented sport. Henry McGhee, described as the "primary architect of competitive female bodybuilding", was an employee of the Downtown Canton YMCA, carried a strong belief that women should share the opportunity to display their physiques and the results of their weight training the way men had done for years.
Marcia Karr (/ m ɑː r s iː ə /; [1] born June 29, 1963) [2] [3] is an American former actress who appeared in several exploitation and horror films in the 1980s, including Chained Heat (1983), Savage Streets (1984), and Killer Workout (1987).
Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama, [8] the youngest of four children of Frances Cunningham (née Finch) and Amasa Coleman Lee. [9] Her parents chose her middle name, Harper, to honor pediatrician Dr. William W. Harper, of Selma, who had saved the life of her sister Louise. [10]
Ruta Lee (born Ruta Mary Kilmonis; May 30, 1935) is a Canadian-born American actress and dancer of Lithuanian descent. She was born in Montreal, Canada, to Lithuanian immigrant parents. She was born in Montreal, Canada, to Lithuanian immigrant parents.