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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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Femininity (Psychology), Sex role, Feminine beauty (Aesthetics), Beauty culture, Femininity, Health and hygiene, Nonfiction, Personal Beauty, Social aspects, Social aspects of Personal beauty, Social conditions, Socialization, Sociology, Women, Féminité, Rôle selon le sexe, Beauté féminine (Esthétique), Body image, Body image in women, Féminité (Psychologie)Showing 8 featured editions. View all 30 editions?
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Mif o krasote: stereotipy protiv zhenshchin
2015, ANF
in Russian
- 2-e izdanie
5916714025 9785916714029
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The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
September 24, 2002, Harper Perennial, Perennial
in English
0060512180 9780060512187
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The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
September 24, 2002, Harper Perennial
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0060512180 9780060512187
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The beauty myth: how images of beauty are used against women
1992, Anchor Books
in English
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0385423977 9780385423977
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The beauty myth: how images of beauty are used against women
1991, W. Morrow
in English
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0688085105 9780688085100
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"When The Beauty Myth was first published, more than ten years ago, I had the chance to hear what must have been thousands of stories."
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