The Beauty Myth: How Images of Female Beauty Are Used Against Women - Couverture rigide

Wolf, Naomi

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0688085105 ISBN 13 : 9780688085100

Editeur : William Morrow & Co, 1991

Synopsis

Book by Wolf Naomi

A propos du livre

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

Revue de presse :

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

"Powerful... No other work has...so honestly depicted the confusion of accomplished women who feel emotionally and physically tortured by the need to look like movie stars" (New York Times)

"The most important feminist publication since The Female Eunuch" (Germaine Greer)

"A brilliant, bracing book...The world has changed - a bit - over the past decade and a half, but not enough: this remains essential reading" (Guardian)

"Essential reading" (Fay Weldon)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: William Morrow & Co
• Date d'édition: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0688085105
• ISBN 13: 9780688085100
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1