The internet has transformed beauty culture from an exclusive domain of models and magazines to the broad, accessible world of social media. In recent years, research shows that more and more women are saying that they feel beautiful. But at the same time, the vast majority of women say they feel pressure to be beautiful. Glad You Asked hosts Cleo Abram and Joss Fong explore the benefits and costs of today’s beauty culture. Key Sources: Fifty Years Ago, Protesters Took on the Miss America Pageant and Electrified the Feminist Movement The Digital Beauty Counter: How Beauty Marketers can Connect to Consumers Through Youtube, Facebook, and Instagram Video Beauty Shop Politics, by Tiffany Gill Beauty Sick, by R
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