The Beauty Myth

Author: Naomi Wolf
ISBN: 9780385423977

The bestselling classic that redefined our view od the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of "the flawless beauty."

Publisher: Harper Collins
Publish Date: 2009-03-17

Subjects: Social Science / Women's Studies, Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social Science / Gender Studies

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