The most important feminist publication since The Female Eunuch Germaine GreerĪ brilliant, bracing book. No other work has.so honestly depicted the confusion of accomplished women who feel emotionally and physically tortured by the need to look like movie stars New York Times Every woman should read it' Gloria Steinem Read moreĪ smart, angry, insightful book, and a clarion call to freedom. 'A smart, angry, insightful book, and a clarion call to freedom. With pertinent and intelligent examples, she confronts the beauty industry and its advertising and uncovers the reasons why women are consumed by this destructive obsession. In this iconic, gripping and frank exposé, Naomi Wolf exposes the tyranny of the beauty myth through the ages and its oppressive function today, in the home and at work, in literature and the media, in relationships between men and women, between women and women. In a society embroiled in a cult of female beauty and youthfulness, pressure on women to conform physically is constant and all-pervading.
Įvery day, women around the world are confronted with a dilemma - how to look. Women and Rape by Susan Brownmiller (1975) Anyone who cares about those who are raped, and how they are treated afterwards by society, owes a debt of thanks to Brownmiller. The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity. Wolf is an American feminist author had published the book The Beauty Myth to. Provocative, punchy and important, this is one of the essential classics of modern feminist literature. Caryn James wrote in the New York Times, in a mostly negative review of the book when it came out: The Beauty Myth is a mess, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong. Myth (Naomi Wolf) (How images of beauty are used against women) Naomi.
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