The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf Paper

Description: The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf In the struggle for womens equality, there is one subject still shrouded in silence - womens 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. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Provocative, punchy and important, this is one of the essential classics of modern feminist literature.In the struggle for womens equality, there is one subject still shrouded in silence - womens compulsive pursuit of beauty. The myth of female beauty challenges every woman, every day of her life.Naomi Wolf 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 pertinent and intelligent examples, she confronts the beauty industry and its advertising and uncovers the reasons why women are consumed by this destructive obsession. Notes One of the most significant books of the century, this has been reissued with a contemporary new look. A brilliant, bracing book ... The world has changed - a bit - over the past decade and a half, but not enough: this remains essential reading Guardian Author Biography Naomi Wolf was born in 1962 in San Francisco. She studied at Yale before becoming a Rhodes scholar at New College, Oxford, and working in Edinburgh. The Beauty Myth was published in 1990 and was an international bestseller. This was followed by Fire with Fire, Promiscuities, Misconceptions and The Tree House. Review A smart, angry, insightful book, and a clarion call to freedom. Every woman should read it. -- Gloria SteinemPowerful... No other work has...so honestly depicted the confusion of accomplished women who feel emotionally and physically tortured by the need to look like movie stars * New York Times *The most important feminist publication since The Female Eunuch -- Germaine GreerA brilliant, bracing book...The world has changed - a bit - over the past decade and a half, but not enough: this remains essential reading * Guardian *Essential reading -- Fay Weldon Promotional Provocative, punchy and important, this is one of the essential classics of modern feminist literature. Kirkus US Review "Being a woman. . .makes you hungry, weak, and sick," says Wolf, a British scholar, journalist and poet who argues that the contemporary myth (meaning false ideal) of beauty - youthful, slender, flawless - was invented by a male power structure in order to prevent women from fulfilling the feminist ideals of the 70s. According to Wolf, a whole generation of women (by which she means white, educated, professional, childless, probably single), crippled by a male-generated myth of beauty that does not apply to them, are hungry (the woman who earns a $100,000 a year "has a bodily income of 1,000 calories a day"), sexually deprived, physically mutilated, and addicted to beauty rituals that leave them feeling anxious and unfulfilled. Along with masses of undifferentiated statistics (90% of women surveyed say they weigh too much), imaginative displacements (men having sexually enhancing cosmetic surgery), and perceptive analyses of cosmetic advertising (creams, shampoos, conditioners with sexual attributes substituting for failed relationships with men), Wolf, an immensely talented and resourceful writer, offers some controversial, certainly memorable analyses of contemporary female behavior: a college campus, for example, resembles "the Holocaust" - "a vast number of emaciated bodies starved not by nature but by men." This repeated shifting of responsibility to men for what women look like, or eat, or how they feel, Wolf says, is itself a denial of the autonomy that women as human beings should have, and that, as feminists, they seek to define only in an economic and political sphere. In spite of the anger, the generalization, the hortatory tone, the shifting from the implicative "you" to "we," this book should be read by men who are bewildered by women and by women who are too busy raising children, or earning a living, or creating a life to deal with this finally tangential and avoidable non-issue. Powerful, angry, and maybe influential. (Kirkus Reviews) Review Text A smart, angry, insightful book, and a clarion call to freedom. Every woman should read it. Review Quote Essential reading Promotional "Headline" Provocative, punchy and important, this is one of the essential classics of modern feminist literature. Details ISBN0099861909 Author Naomi Wolf Pages 352 ISBN-10 0099861909 ISBN-13 9780099861904 Format Paperback Imprint Vintage Subtitle How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 646.72 Illustrations illustrations Media Book Short Title BEAUTY MYTH Residence New York, NY, US Publisher Vintage Publishing Year 1991 Publication Date 1991-09-05 UK Release Date 1991-09-05 AU Release Date 1991-09-05 NZ Release Date 1991-09-05 Audience General Alternative 9781448190072 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:906737;

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