Many people see their body hair choices as reflections of their gender, sexuality, and femininity. Patriarchal standards deem body hair like thick hair on arms or faces as "manly" or "unfeminine." ...

Before film was invented, early portrait photographers first discovered the titillating pleasure of exposing images of nudes on silver copper plates. Since then, the male gaze has largely shaped how ...

Hilary Duff is embracing her body. The actress, 34, posed nude for Women’s Health May/June cover and shared the struggles she has faced with accepting her body over the years. In her interview with ...

The painter, 89, has never shied away from erotic imagery. Her signature nude self-portraits are an attempt to see herself through her own eyes. The artist Joan Semmel in her SoHo studio, where she ...

Social media could be sparking the change for women, expert says. When the saying, “strong is the new skinny” exploded on social media, it seemed like a positive step forward for female body image.

She said she received negative comments about her body on an Instagram post that shared a picture of her after the gym ...

Growing up in the Midwest, Tiffany J. Sutton found herself in predominantly white spaces. She began photographing Black women as a way of reconnecting to a part of her culture that she felt was ...

“The Taliban has destroyed two decades of progress in Afghanistan in a matter of weeks. No matter where I am, I will continue to fight for the rights of my people and work to save those who are in ...