The Beauty Myth | How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women

by Naomi Wolf
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9780099595748

Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 352
Published: 2nd March 2015
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 19.5 x 13  x 2.5
Weight (kg): 0.26
Edition Number: 1

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 expose, 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 pertinent and intelligent examples, she confronts the beauty industry and its advertising and uncovers the reasons why women are consumed by this destructive obsession.

About the Author

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.

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