Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library May 6, 2009

Films: Never Perfect (2007) directed by Regina Park, and The Mirror Lied (1998), directed by Jennifer Haskin-O’Reggio

Two short documentaries about body image. In NEVER PERFECT, a young Vietnamese-American woman's struggles with popular perceptions of beauty and body image as she fights the stigma of racial self-hatred in her decision to undergo cosmetic surgery; THE MIRROR LIED, 1998 winner of a Student Academy Award, tells the story of a teenage African American girl trying to cope with the ideals of feminine beauty imposed by white society.

Speaker: Elena Creef, Asian American Women's Studies professor and author, Wellesley College

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