The Beauty Myth

How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

Tapa blanda, 368 páginas

Idioma English

Publicado por Harper Perennial.

ISBN:
978-0-06-051218-7
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Número OCLC:
49902995

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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."

25 ediciones

Temas

  • Sociology
  • Gender Studies
  • Social Science
  • Women's Studies - General
  • Feminism & Feminist Theory
  • Social Science / Women's Studies
  • Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
  • Femininity
  • Sex role