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The Campaign -
Endangered Species: Preserving the Female Body
Over the years The WTCI has
been sought as a presenter to offer lectures, talks,
keynote addresses, panels, workshops, etc. on the various
aspects of women and their relationships to food and
their bodies. In the field of published work our
faculty’s contributions have been extensive and well
received by many disciplines. Whenever we interface with
the public and professional communities, we draw on the
30-plus years of clinical experience shared by our
faculty and Board. Now, are in the process of extending
our audience even further by pooling that broad base of
knowledge and expertise into a body/compendium of
knowledge, which can be effectively shared, with a myriad
of audiences, by a variety of our members, and in a
format and manner consistent with the digital tools
available to today’s 21st Century participants. More
than ever, and in an increasingly globalized society, our
role must broaden further to help others recognize the
cultural mirror and its effect on girls development;
disordered eating as both symptom and protest of cultural
toxicity; the exportation of the idealized western female
body and the globalization of self-harm; feminist efforts
to create a critique and a wedge in which to find
acceptance and breathing room; clinical responses and
feminist oriented psychoanalytic relational practice. To
be effective, this information can be disseminated and
interaction initiated by the skilled and knowledgeable
members of The WTCI.
The goal of our grassroots project Endangered
Species: Preserving the Female
Body,
is to establish an all-embracing presentation capable of
being divided into separable sections, content specific,
to varying audiences including college, high school and
elementary school students, parents, clinical facilities,
community groups, social service agencies, girls clubs,
etc.
Our faculty is developing the main structure of our
presentation while covering the breadth of work on the
body, body image and self-worth that The WTCI has
explored and formulated over many years. With your help
we would like to move to the next phase by synthesizing
this data and acquiring the hardware and software
necessary to translate this body of material into a
digital format. This will allow us to author a flexible,
modular power point presentation capable of modification
through selecting appropriate components and information
tailored to each audience, giving us the tools to reach
out to a much larger and wider audience.