The beauty myth

Contributor(s):

Wolf, Naomi [Author]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: NULL NULL, Description: 348 p. 25 cm.ISBN:

9780060512187

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Summary: 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 dif ferent 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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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 dif ferent 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.