The Beauty Myth

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Last edited by Tom Morris
September 5, 2023 | History

The Beauty Myth

New Ed edition
  • 3.8 (12 ratings) ·
  • 270 Want to read
  • 11 Currently reading
  • 15 Have read

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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Publisher
Vintage
Pages
352

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Cover of: Mif o krasote
Mif o krasote: stereotipy protiv zhenshchin
2015, ANF
in Russian - 2-e izdanie
Cover of: Beauty Myth
Beauty Myth
2015, Penguin Random House
in English
Cover of: The Beauty Myth
The Beauty Myth
2008, HarperCollins
Electronic resource in English
Cover of: The Beauty Myth
The Beauty Myth
June 7, 2007, Vintage
Paperback - New Ed edition
Cover of: The Beauty Myth
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
September 24, 2002, Harper Perennial
Paperback in English
Cover of: The Beauty Myth
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
September 24, 2002, Harper Perennial, Perennial
in English
Cover of: The beauty myth
The beauty myth: how images of beauty are used against women
1992, Anchor Books
in English - 1st Anchor Books ed.
Cover of: The beauty myth
The beauty myth: how images of beauty are used against women
1991, W. Morrow
in English - 1st ed.

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First Sentence

"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."

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
352
Dimensions
7.7 x 5 x 1 inches
Weight
7 ounces

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Open Library
OL9274744M
Internet Archive
beautymythhowima00wolf_1
ISBN 10
0099861909
ISBN 13
9780099861904
Library Thing
16568
Goodreads
899723

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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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