The most important feminist publication since The Female Eunuch Germaine GreerĪ brilliant, bracing book. No other work has.so honestly depicted the confusion of accomplished women who feel emotionally and physically tortured by the need to look like movie stars New York Times
Every woman should read it' Gloria Steinem Read moreĪ smart, angry, insightful book, and a clarion call to freedom. At the time of its original release, The Beauty Myth was considered a seminal feminist work for its analysis of the way the marketand its consumer culturegenerates and. 'A smart, angry, insightful book, and a clarion call to freedom. Naomi Wolf’s The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women was published in 1990 and republished in 2002 by HarperCollins with an updated introduction. With pertinent and intelligent examples, she confronts the beauty industry and its advertising and uncovers the reasons why women are consumed by this destructive obsession. In this iconic, gripping and frank exposé, Naomi Wolf exposes the tyranny of the beauty myth through the ages and its oppressive function today, in the home and at work, in literature and the media, in relationships between men and women, between women and women. In a society embroiled in a cult of female beauty and youthfulness, pressure on women to conform physically is constant and all-pervading.
Įvery day, women around the world are confronted with a dilemma - how to look. The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity. Provocative, punchy and important, this is one of the essential classics of modern feminist literature.
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