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Tom Callan reporting Does your size and shape determine what you think of yourself? Beginning Wednesday, the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah will spend two days dissecting how our bodies shape self image.
Like Greek gods or goddesses, whether we are male or female, homosexual or heterosexual, the conference will probe our obsession with having the perfect body. "Perhaps some issues that women face, men face just the same," said Kimberly Barnett, development specialist at the University of Utah.
Barnett says a film will look at the changing image of the body in the gay community. "Being really thin wasn't so attractive anymore because perhaps that meant you had a disease," she explained.
She says there is so much to cover the conference needs two days. For more information on the conference, click the related link.
