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In this chapter, I describe some of the perils and pleasures of translating scholarly work in the realms of objectification, self-objectification, and sexualization to advocacy. Using examples of my own advocacy work in the media, as well as in collaboration with educational, corporate, and legal entities working for the betterment of girls’ and women’s embodied lives, I illustrate some of the dilemmas and challenges of moving outside the closed room of academia and into the public arena as an advocate. In addition, I provide concrete suggestions for feminist psychological scientists interested in becoming active advocates. Despite the many challenges, or perhaps because of them, I have found that advocacy work has the potential to be among the most rewarding features of a feminist psychologist’s career.
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Roberts, TA. (2016). Mind the Thigh Gap? Bringing Feminist Psychological Science to the Masses. In: Roberts, TA., Curtin, N., Duncan, L., Cortina, L. (eds) Feminist Perspectives on Building a Better Psychological Science of Gender. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32141-7_16
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