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The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women Book

The Beauty Myth : Paperback : HarperCollins Publishers Inc : 9780060512187 : 0060512180 : 05 Sep 2011 : Originally published: 1st ed. New York: Morrow, c1991.Read More

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    In a country where the average woman is 5-foot-4 and weighs 140 pounds, movies, advertisements, and MTV saturate our lives with unrealistic images of beauty. The tall, nearly emaciated mannequins that push the latest miracle cosmetic make even the most confident woman question her appearance. Feminist Naomi Wolf argues that women's insecurities are heightened by these images, then exploited by the diet, cosmetic, and plastic surgery industries. Every day new products are introduced to "correct" inherently female "flaws," drawing women into an obsessive and hopeless cycle built around the attempt to reach an impossible standard of beauty. Wolf rejects the standard and embraces the naturally distinct beauty of all women.

  • Product 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."

  • 0060512180
  • 9780060512187
  • Naomi Wolf
  • 1 September 2002
  • Harper Perennial
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 368
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