The Women’s Center, in collaboration with Campus Recreation, the Counseling Center, and Student Health Services, is pleased to present Camille Cooper’s The Truth about Beauty. Please join us on Tuesday, February 26, 2008, at 7:00 PM in the Centennial Student Union Ostrander Auditorium at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Camille Cooper’s presentation will serve as the anchor event for Eating Disorders Awareness Week and the launch of Women’s History Month.
This presentation is free and tickets are not required. Seating is general admission and doors will open at 6:30 PM.
Camille Cooper has worked professionally in film and television for the past ten years, starring in five motion pictures and more than ten television series including General Hospitaland Knots Landing. She has been featured in numerous commercials and print ads (for Coke, Milky Way and Campbell's Soup, among others). She has been interviewed and photographed for such publications as Premiere Interview, Egg, and The New York Times, and has appeared on the cover of Working Mother.
Ms. Cooper has co-chaired the Committee for the Empowerment of Young Women since 1994, and has lectured across the country, educating and encouraging young women to question what they see, to define themselves by their abilities and their dreams, and to take action to promote positive change.
In a dynamic and empowering presentation, a program described by the students and educators who have viewed it as "shocking", "uplifting", and "a relief", Camille Cooper delivers a unique, humorous and insightful look at a media industry obsessed with thinness and beauty.
Women are conditioned at a very young age into believeing that only certain roles are acceptable for them. The majority of that conditioning puts an emphasis on how women look. As a result, women suffer from low self-esteem, depression and eating disorders.
The media is the most influential educational medium that exists today. By first grade, children have already spent more time watching television than they will spend in class in college. By the time they reach adulthood, they will have been bombarded by images that affect their judgement about each other, their abilities, and about their bodies.
By using before and after slides that demonstrate how retouching, lighting and camera filters distort what we see, Camille Cooper lifts the veil of illusion and enables women to discover the truth: the media's standards of beauty is a fabrication, an ideal that is impossible to attain.
This event is sponsored by Campus Recreation, the Counseling Center, Student Health Services, the Women’s Center, and is supported by Student Activity Fees.
For more information or to request special accommodation, please contact Merlita Tiew at (507) 389-6146 (V), 800-627-3529 or 711 (MRS/TTY) or merlita.tiew@mnsu.edu. Another accommodation option is to contact the Office of Disability Services at (507) 389-2825 (V/TTY).
For MSU events: individuals with a disability, who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this event, are asked to contact the Office of Disability Services at 507-389-2825 (V/TTD), 800-627-3529 or 711 (MRS/TTD) at least five days prior to the event.
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