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

Naomi Wolf

The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage
Country
United Kingdom
Published
2 November 1993
Pages
352
ISBN
9780099861904

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

Naomi Wolf

Provocative, punchy and important, this is one of the essential classics of modern feminist literature.

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.

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