The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women - Couverture souple

Wolf, Naomi

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099595745 ISBN 13 : 9780099595748

Editeur : Vintage Classics, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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 exposé, 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.

‘Essential reading’ Guardian

‘A smart, angry, insightful book, and a clarion call to freedom. Every woman should read it’ Gloria Steinem

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: Vintage Classics
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0099595745
• ISBN 13: 9780099595748
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352