The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

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

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.Read More

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  • Product Description

    A look at the beauty myth exposes the unrealistic, impossible standards of female beauty as destructive social control, asserting that the myth of female perfection is created by the media and the diet, fashion, and cosmetic industries. Reprint. NYT.

  • 0385423977
  • 9780385423977
  • Naomi Wolf
  • 1 July 1992
  • Anchor Books/Doubleday
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 368
  • Reprint
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