The Beauty Myth

WOLF,N

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Author
WOLF,N
Publish Date
09/01/2002
Book Type
Paperback
Publisher Name
HARPER
Subtitle
How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
Number of Pages
368
Edition
Reprint
ISBN-10
0060512180
ISBN-13
9780060512187
SKU
9780060512187

Description

The bestselling classic that redefined our view od the relationship between beauty and female identity.

In 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."