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

In the struggle for women's equality, there is one subject still shrouded in silence - women's compulsive pursuit of beauty. The myth of female beauty challenges every woman, every day of her life. The author exposes the tyranny of the beauty myth through the ages and its oppressive function today, in the home and at work, in literature and the media, in relationships between men and women, between women and women. With examples, she confronts the beauty industry and its advertising and uncovers the reasons why women are consumed by this destructive obsession.

About the Author
Naomi Wolf is the author of The Beauty Myth, an international bestseller, and named one of the most significant books of the century by the New York Times. She lectures widely.

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A brilliant, bracing book...The world has changed - a bit - over the past decade and a half, but not enough: this remains essential reading,Essential reading,This is one of the most brilliant books...One doesn't have to agree with every sentence or even every implication of the statements to realise that they revolutionise the discussion of women's magazines and other parts of the ideology about women,Naomi Wolf's uncompromising, hard-hitting investigation of the coercion of women by the Beauty Myth has the power to changes lives