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