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| Writer | Renee Engeln |
| Category | Self Development |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Publish Date | 2017 |
| Pages | 318 |
| File Size | 2 MB |
| File Type |
I taught my first college-level course, “The Psychology of Women,” almost twenty years ago. As I got to know the young women who were students in my class, I became both impressed and concerned. These students blew me away with their intelligence and perseverance, their humor, and their consistent openness to engaging with difficult ideas.
But some of the worries that burdened these talented women surprised me with their intensity. Of course, there were anxieties about things like grades, finding a job, or relationship troubles. But these women also spent an alarming amount of time worrying about their weight, their skin, their clothing, and their hair. One student admitted she missed class one day simply because she felt “too ugly to be seen in public.”
The other women in the class accepted this claim without surprise, secure in the knowledge that if you’re a woman worrying about how you look, you’ll always be in good company. After offering the obligatory reassurances that she wasn’t ugly, they patted her on the shoulder with gentle understanding.
As we sat at a local café, catching each other up on our lives, he began telling me a story about the service trips abroad that he leads for college students. A couple of weeks before one of these groups was set to leave for a tropical location, he asked the students to write reflections on whether they were prepared for their trip.
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