Rosie Molinary is a Davidson-based writer whose first book, “Hijas Americanas: Beauty, Body Image and Growing Up Latina,” was published this summer (Seal Press, June 2007). Ms. Molinary (photo) has been touring the country since summer for book-signings and college lectures. She talked with DavidsonNews.net’s David Boraks about growing up Latina in the South, about her interviews and surveys with young women, and about “shaking up America’s beauty standards.” (Click the play button to start.)

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