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

Author: Naomi Wolf Year: 1990 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Feminism, Psychology, Politics Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780060512187 0060512180

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." Similar books: Female Chauvinist Pigs by Ariel Levy The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan Backlash by Susan Faludi The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer Cunt by Inga Muscio Bitch by Elizabeth Wurtzel Enlightened Sexism by Susan J. Douglas The End of Men by Hanna Rosin Sexual Politics by Kate Millett Against Our Will by Susan Brownmiller Promiscuities by Naomi Wolf Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by Bell Hooks Sisterhood, Interrupted by Deborah Siegel Slut! by Leora Tanenbaum Pink Think by Lynn Peril Men on Strike by Helen Smith The End of America by Naomi Wolf Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher