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

by Naomi Wolf

Overview

The bestselling classic that redefined our view of 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."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780060512187
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	09/24/2002
Series:	Harper Perennial
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	368
Sales rank:	81,453
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.83(d)

About the Author

Naomi Wolf is the author of seven books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Beauty Myth, Promiscuities, Misconceptions, The End of America, and Give Me Liberty. She writes for the New Republic, Time, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Huffington Post, Al Jazeera, La Repubblica, and the Sunday Times (London), among many other publications. She lives with her family in New York City.