The beauty myth : how images of beauty are used against women /
Wolf, Naomi.
The beauty myth : how images of beauty are used against women / Naomi Wolf. - New York : Perennial, 2002. - 348 p. ; 21 cm.
Originally published: 1st ed. New York : Morrow, c1991.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-335) and index.
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."
0060512180 (pbk.)
2002072516
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Femininity.
Sex role.
HQ1219 / .W65 2002
305.42 WOL 2002
The beauty myth : how images of beauty are used against women / Naomi Wolf. - New York : Perennial, 2002. - 348 p. ; 21 cm.
Originally published: 1st ed. New York : Morrow, c1991.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-335) and index.
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."
0060512180 (pbk.)
2002072516
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Femininity.
Sex role.
HQ1219 / .W65 2002
305.42 WOL 2002