For our Roundtable today, we'll talk to three women working on the front lines of black female body image.

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By the time the heel came back into fashion, in the mid-19th Century, photography was transforming the way that fashions - and the female self-image - were constructed.

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Alexandra Coghlan, writing for The Arts Desk, said that Lloyd's cast "certainly give the lie to any weakly girlish image of the female".

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Guys living with their parents: the image certainly won't attract female viewers.

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Some scholars say she originated in medieval Spain through the image of La Parca, a female Grim Reaper, who was used by friars for the later evangelization of indigenous populations in the Americas.

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Body image is a big part of self-esteem, and though there's certainly body-image dysfunction in boys and men, it remains mostly a female issue.

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