A Smart Girl's Guide: Body Image: How to Love Yourself, Live Life to the Fullest, and Celebrate All Kinds of Bodies is an American Girl publication in the A Smart Girl's Guides series, focused on body positivity at all sizes, false images and beauty standards, disability rights, gender diversity and expression, body consent, and self esteem.
Contents[]
Body Image Basics[]
- The Body Blues
- Quiz: Body Image Check-Up
- Loving Your Body Right Now
- Body Bliss
Your Body[]
- Shape and Size
- The Skin You're In
- Awesome and Able
- Growing and Flowing
- Gender Joy
- Body Image in Distress
- The One and Only You
Love Your Body[]
- Eat
- Diet? Don't Try It!
- Step Away From the Scale
- Winner Winner, Family Dinner
- Move It!
- Month of Movement Challenge
- You're the Boss of Your Body
- Dress to Express
- Makeup and More
- Bounce Back
- Quick Fixes
The Background on Beauty[]
- What's Beauty?
- Picture-Perfect or Phony-Baloney?
- The Dark Side of the Beauty Standard
- Media Makeover
- Be-YOU-tiful
- Follow the Money
- Bogus Beauty Bingo
Celebrate All Bodies[]
- Put a Stop to Body Talk
- Health Myths
- Body Bullying
- Making Space for Everyone
- Vision Board
- Changing the World Every Day
- Resources
Resources[]
Listed resources in the book include:
- The Trevor Project and Human Rights Campaign
- GLSEN
- National Eating Disorders Association
- StopBullying.gov
- We Need Diverse Books
- Americans with Disabilities Act and Disability Rights Advocates
- A Smart Girl's Guide: Race and Inclusion
Real Girl Runway[]
Through the book, five girls are spotlighted through the Real Girl Runway:
- Zoe Terry of Zoe's Dolls, a organization to promote black and brown dolls.
- Ivy Golob, a Deaf, trans, Jewish girl whose first language is American Sign Language (Instagram).
- Kinley Agent, a plus-sized hip-hop dancer with asthma (Instagram).
- Fatima Abdelrahman, a Muslim squash athlete who was confronted in an airport and pressured to remove her headscarf in public, leading to changes in airline policy after her family's public complaints.[1]
- Jordan Reeves, a girl with limb difference who designed a purple glitter-shooting prosthetic called The Glitter Blaster[2] and founder of the organization Born Just Right with her mother
The girls are then shown together in an illustrated image on the last page before Resources.