The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against WomenIn today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of 'the flawless beauty.' |
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User Review - Juva - LibraryThingThis book is a masterpiece that deserves to be savored. It's a collection of writing aimed at dissecting Western society's obsession with female beauty and the way this has been used to counter ... Read full review
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User Review - smallself - LibraryThingI liked this book much better the second time. It’s hard to get down the first time, although not because the ideas are complicated. They’re not. But they’re the water the fish swims in. Read full review
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| Title | The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women Vintage Wolf |
| Author | Naomi Wolf |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Vintage, 1991 |
| ISBN | 0099861909, 9780099861904 |
| Length | 348 pages |
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