The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
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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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Aug-15-2008
- Truer today than when it was written
What makes this book so important is that it is just as, if not more, relevant today than it was in 1991. Women continue to be judged more by our appearances than actions, and while there do seem to be a few examples of progress (like...
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: May-30-2008
- A Very Important Book
The Beauty Myth is a must have for every woman in the world and the men who love them. Naomi Wolf hit the nail on the head about the isolating effect the beauty myth has on women, ie: women viewing each other with suspicion, women...
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- 1/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: May-12-2008
- I'm Sorry, I Just Don't Think This Book
is good. She's privilegded by the same beauty standards she decry so much in her debut book. Beauty standards are fluid, never rigid, as she thinks they are. Her book fails to acknowledge that fact. Women, not men, control the beauty...
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Apr-28-2008
- The third wave
Naomi Wolf does an expert job defining her point of view of what is going on during the third wave of feminism. This is a good book to contrast the other historical feminist periods. However, the reader needs to keep an open mind about...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Aug-15-2008
- Truer today than when it was written
What makes this book so important is that it is just as, if not more, relevant today than it was in 1991. Women continue to be judged more by our appearances than actions, and while there do seem to be a few examples of progress (like...
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Nov-04-2007
- What makes it a myth?
I bought this book to further explore the idea of the "beauty myth". Though the book is informative, it is very one sided. I even agree with most of the stuff, but i feel it needs to be backed up with information and facts that may...
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- 1/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: May-12-2008
- I'm Sorry, I Just Don't Think This Book
is good. She's privilegded by the same beauty standards she decry so much in her debut book. Beauty standards are fluid, never rigid, as she thinks they are. Her book fails to acknowledge that fact. Women, not men, control the beauty...
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