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

Wolf, Naomi

ISBN 10 : 0060512180 ISBN 13 : 9780060512187

Editeur : Harper Perennial, 2002

Synopsis

Book by Wolf Naomi

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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."

Quatrième de couverture :

'A brilliant, bracing book...this remains essential reading' Guardian

The struggle for gender equality has played out alongside the unchanging belief that women must be beautiful. In this groundbreaking work of feminism, Naomi Wolf argues that our all-pervading emphasis on the importance of female beauty entraps women in the ceaseless pursuit of a physical ideal and colours perceptions of women at home, at work, in the media and in public life. With razor sharp insight and fascinating examples, Wolf exposes the tyranny of the beauty myth, its oppressive function and the destructive obsession in engenders.

See also: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0060512180
• ISBN 13: 9780060512187
• Reliure: Livre broché
• Nombre de pages: 368