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The Beauty Myth: How Images of Female Beauty Are Used Against Women

The Beauty Myth: How Images of Female Beauty Are Used Against Women

The Beauty Myth: How Images of Female Beauty Are Used Against Women
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The Beauty Myth: How Images of Female Beauty Are Used Against Women

by Wolf, Naomi

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ISBN 10
0099861909
ISBN 13
9780099861904
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New York, NY, Vintage, 1991. Very Good/Unknown. Octavo, softcover, VG in brownish-purple pictorial wraps. 348 pp. including index. In this controversial national bestseller, feminist scholar Naomi Wolf argues that there is one hurdle in the struggle for equality that women have yet to clear--the myth of female beauty. She exposes today's unrealistic standards of female beauty as a destructive form of social control and a reaction against women's increasing status in business and politics.

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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."

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Title
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Female Beauty Are Used Against Women
Author
Wolf, Naomi
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
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Unknown
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Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0099861909
ISBN 13
9780099861904
Publisher
New York, NY, Vintage, 1991
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
June 7, 2007

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