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

Wolf, Naomi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060512180 ISBN 13: 9780060512187

Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2002

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Book by Wolf Naomi

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A look at the beauty myth exposes the unrealistic, impossible standards of female beauty as destructive social control, asserting that the myth of female perfection is created by the media and the diet, fashion, and cosmetic industries. Reprint.

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The bestselling classic that redefined our view od 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."

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• Verlag: Harper Perennial
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0060512180
• ISBN 13: 9780060512187
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368