The beauty myth : how images of beauty are used against women / Naomi Wolf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolf, Naomi

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics).

Femininity.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

348 pages : portrait ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Perennial edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Perennial, 2002.

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 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."

Notes:

Originally published: 1st ed. New York : Morrow, c1991.

"With a new introduction by the author"-- Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-335) and index.

ISBN:

0060512180

OCLC:

49902995