The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women
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In the struggle for women’s equality, there is one subject still shrouded in silence – women’s compulsive pursuit of beauty. The myth of female beauty challenges every woman, every day of her life. 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.
Additional information
Weight | 0.246 kg |
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Dimensions | 2.2 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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Format | Paperback |
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Pages | 352 |
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Year Published | 1991-9-5 |
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Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
ISBN 10 | 0099861909 |
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. |
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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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