The Beauty Myth
By Naomi Wolf
- Release Date: 2009-03-17
- Genre: Social Science
Description
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."
Reviews
Liked it more as a teenager
2By Muffy TeppermanNow I found it rather boring, perhaps because others since have written better about this pervasive and grotesque type of mind controlling consumerism.