EVENTS IN FEBRUARY RECOGNIZE EATING DISORDERS AND BODY IMAGE AWARENESS MONTH

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During February, the Body Image Council will host student performances of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, a speaker and screenings of three films at Bryn Mawr in recognition of Eating Disorders and Body Image Awareness Month. The activities are open to the public and, unless otherwise noted, free.

Real Women Have Curves, a film by Patricia Cardoso that received the Dramatic Audience Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, will be shown at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 4, in room 110 of Thomas Library. This independent coming-of-age film about a young woman's struggles to define and accept herself is described by critics as “a note of defiance over social dictates.”

Comedian Michelle Garb will give a lecture on eating disorder awareness and positive body image at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 11, in the main lounge of the Campus Center. The lecture is based on Garb's 15-year battle with anorexia.

The V-Day Benefit Performance of The Vagina Monologues will be held at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 13, and Saturday, Feb. 14, in Thomas Great Hall. Tickets are $5 for Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore students and $8 for others. Proceeds from the event, produced by Bryn Mawr College students, will be donated to the Women's Center of Montgomery County in Bryn Mawr and a relief fund to help end the violence against women in Juarez, Mexico. More information about V-Day and violence against women can be found on the event's global Web site at http://www.vday.org. “Vulvapalooza,” a fair about body-image issues and violence against women, will be held before each night's performance in Thomas Great Hall.

Killing Us Softly, a 2000 documentary by Jean Kilbourne about gender representation in advertising, will be shown on Tuesday, Feb. 17, at 7 p.m. in room 110 of Thomas Library.

The final event of the month is a screening of the 2002 film Lovely and Amazing by Nicole Holofcener, scheduled for 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 25, in room 110 of Thomas Library. Lovely and Amazing is the story of a mother and her three daughters, a former homecoming queen, an aspiring actress and an adopted 8-year-old preoccupied with her looks. According to a review in Salon.com, the film “is about the way people in families relate to one another, about the way women feel about their looks not just as they age but at any age, about racial differences and presuppositions that no one ever wants to talk about.”

For more information, contact mahrens@brynmawr.edu .

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