The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women

by	Naomi Wolf

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The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity .Every day, women around the world are confronted with a dilemma – how to look. In a society embroiled in a cult of female beauty and youthfulness, pressure on women to conform physically is constant and all-pervading. 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. 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.‘Essential reading’ Guardian ‘A smart, angry, insightful book, and a clarion call to freedom. Every woman should read it’ Gloria Steinem

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Weight	0.245 kg
Dimensions	2.1 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
by	Naomi Wolf
Format	Paperback
Language	English
Pages	352
Publisher	Random House
Year Published	2015-3-5
Imprint	Vintage Classics
Publication City/Country	London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10	0099595745
About The Author	Naomi Wolf was born in 1962 in San Francisco. She studied at Yale before becoming a Rhodes scholar at New College, Oxford, and working in Edinburgh. The Beauty Myth was published in 1990 and was an international bestseller. This was followed by Fire with Fire, Promiscuities, Misconceptions and The Tree House.
	A smart, angry, insightful book, and a clarion call to freedom. Every woman should read it.
Other text	Powerful… 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

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