The Beauty Myth

By - Wolf, Naomi

Floor - Floor 1

Published - HarperCollins e-books, Pymble, NSW, 2008

ISBN 10 - 0060512180

ISBN 13 - 9780060512187

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Sex role

Shelf No - 14

Call Number - 305.42 WOL

Physical Description - 348 pages

Notes - Includes Index

Book Information

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."

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