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The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women (Vintage Classics)
Naomi Wolf
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Description for The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women (Vintage Classics)
Paperback. In the struggle for women's equality, there is one subject still shrouded in silence - women's compulsive pursuit of beauty. The myth of female beauty challenges every woman, every day of her life. This book exposes the tyranny of the beauty myth through the ages and its oppressive function in the home and at work, in literature and more. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 202 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 252. Good copy with some minor shelf wear
The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity .
Every day, women around the world are confronted with a dilemma – how to look. In a society embroiled in a cult of female beauty and youthfulness, pressure on women to conform physically is constant and all-pervading. 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. With ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099595748
SKU
KKD0011436
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About Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf was born in 1962 in San Francisco. She studied at Yale before becoming a Rhodes scholar at New College, Oxford, and working in Edinburgh. The Beauty Myth was published in 1990 and was an international bestseller. This was followed by Fire with Fire, Promiscuities, Misconceptions and The Tree House.
Reviews for The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women (Vintage Classics)
A smart, angry, insightful book, and a clarion call to freedom. Every woman should read it.
Gloria Steinem Powerful... 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
The most important feminist publication since The Female Eunuch
... Read more
Gloria Steinem Powerful... 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
The most important feminist publication since The Female Eunuch
... Read more