The Mirror They Built: The Illusion of Choice. The Performance of Power.
The Mirror They Built: The Illusion of Choice, The Performance of Power
By SiStar Joy Unity

This is not a book about fashion.
It is a book about how fashion became a weapon.

The Mirror They Built unravels the carefully constructed illusions that have long defined womanhood — illusions dressed up as freedom, as beauty, as choice. From the exaggerated silhouettes of the Victorian era to today's hyper-curated bodies shaped by surgery, media, and industry, this book traces the aesthetic manipulation of women's bodies across time, culture, and economy.

SiStar Joy Unity invites readers to examine how society performs power through the shaping of form. Drawing on cultural memory, spiritual depth, and historical pattern, she connects the bustles and corsets of the past to the waist trainers and BBLs of the present — revealing a throughline of control masked as style. But this is not just about what women have worn — it's about what has been projected onto them, and who gets to define the frame.

With clarity and conviction, The Mirror They Built exposes the performance, the programming, and the erasure. It asks readers to consider: What are you mirroring? And who built it?

This is a reflection — and a reckoning.
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The Mirror They Built: The Illusion of Choice. The Performance of Power.
The Mirror They Built: The Illusion of Choice, The Performance of Power
By SiStar Joy Unity

This is not a book about fashion.
It is a book about how fashion became a weapon.

The Mirror They Built unravels the carefully constructed illusions that have long defined womanhood — illusions dressed up as freedom, as beauty, as choice. From the exaggerated silhouettes of the Victorian era to today's hyper-curated bodies shaped by surgery, media, and industry, this book traces the aesthetic manipulation of women's bodies across time, culture, and economy.

SiStar Joy Unity invites readers to examine how society performs power through the shaping of form. Drawing on cultural memory, spiritual depth, and historical pattern, she connects the bustles and corsets of the past to the waist trainers and BBLs of the present — revealing a throughline of control masked as style. But this is not just about what women have worn — it's about what has been projected onto them, and who gets to define the frame.

With clarity and conviction, The Mirror They Built exposes the performance, the programming, and the erasure. It asks readers to consider: What are you mirroring? And who built it?

This is a reflection — and a reckoning.
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The Mirror They Built: The Illusion of Choice. The Performance of Power.

The Mirror They Built: The Illusion of Choice. The Performance of Power.

by Sistar Joy Unity
The Mirror They Built: The Illusion of Choice. The Performance of Power.

The Mirror They Built: The Illusion of Choice. The Performance of Power.

by Sistar Joy Unity

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The Mirror They Built: The Illusion of Choice, The Performance of Power
By SiStar Joy Unity

This is not a book about fashion.
It is a book about how fashion became a weapon.

The Mirror They Built unravels the carefully constructed illusions that have long defined womanhood — illusions dressed up as freedom, as beauty, as choice. From the exaggerated silhouettes of the Victorian era to today's hyper-curated bodies shaped by surgery, media, and industry, this book traces the aesthetic manipulation of women's bodies across time, culture, and economy.

SiStar Joy Unity invites readers to examine how society performs power through the shaping of form. Drawing on cultural memory, spiritual depth, and historical pattern, she connects the bustles and corsets of the past to the waist trainers and BBLs of the present — revealing a throughline of control masked as style. But this is not just about what women have worn — it's about what has been projected onto them, and who gets to define the frame.

With clarity and conviction, The Mirror They Built exposes the performance, the programming, and the erasure. It asks readers to consider: What are you mirroring? And who built it?

This is a reflection — and a reckoning.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940184654362
Publisher: SiStar Joy Unity
Publication date: 08/19/2025
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

SiStar Joy Unity is a writer, thinker, and cultural mirror-bearer whose work explores the intersections of memory, origin, and power. Drawing from ancestral rhythm, historical pattern, and lived experience, she invites readers to question inherited narratives and examine the systems that shape perception. Her reflections are not doctrine, but direction — offerings for those seeking clarity beneath the noise. The Mirror They Built follows her debut work Echoes After Departure in tracing the illusions, erasures, and performances that define dominant culture and its impact on the feminine.
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