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

Name: The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Naomi Wolf
ISBN: 9780060512187

Naomi Wolf

24/09/2002
Harper Perennial

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Couverture de The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women par Naomi Wolf

Résumé

The bestselling classic that redefined our view of 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."