Title: The beauty myth : how images of beauty are used against women
First published: 1991
Description: 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."
Subjects: 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)
LC classification: HQ'1219'W6514'1991