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The Beauty Myth
How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
by Naomi Wolf
ISBN: 0060512180
ISBN-13: 9780060512187
Format: Paperback
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Summary
A sweeping indictment of the idealization and commercialization of female beauty by the American patriarchal culture as a backlash response to the feminist movement.
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"...[A] smart, angry, insightful book, and a clarion call to freedom. Every woman should read it." -- Gloria Steinem
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published date: 2002
Size: 4.75 x 8 inches
Weight: 0.6 pounds
Pages: 368
Publisher's Notes
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."
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Harper Perennial, 2002-09-24. Very Good. Very Good: corner creased at back cover corner, otherwise clean & unmarked inside & out, tight, square copy In a country where the average woman is 5-foot-4 and weighs 140 pounds, movies, advertisements, and MTV saturate our lives with unrealistic images . The tall, nearly emaciated mannequins that push the latest miracle cosmetic make even the most confident woman question her appearance. Feminist Naomi Wolf argues that women's insecurities are heightened by these images, then exploited by the diet, cosmetic, and plastic surgery industries. Every day new products are introduced to "correct" inherently female "flaws," drawing women into an obsessive and hopeless cycle built around the attempt to reach an impossible standard of beauty. Wolf rejects the standard and embraces the naturally distinct beauty of all women. 368pp. ( more information) Offered by Driftless Books and Music (United States)
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