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The beauty myth
First published 1990
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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.
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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."
Source: Open Library
Book information
- Author
- Naomi Wolf
- First published
- 1990
- Publisher
- Vintage
- ISBN-13
- 9780099861904