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Historian Amy Stanley of Northwestern University Wins Two Book Awards

Historian Amy Stanley of Northwestern University Wins Two Book Awards

Amy Stanley, professor of history in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University has won the 2021 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for biography and the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography for her book Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World.

Northwestern University Study Examines Men and Women's Perceptions of the Ultra-Thin Body Type

Northwestern University Study Examines Men and Women’s Perceptions of the Ultra-Thin Body Type

The authors conclude that “men do not find the ultra-thin body ideal for women as attractive as women believe men do. These gender-based misconceptions may contribute to the negative effects of viewing ultra-thin media images on women’s body image.”