The Beauty Myth, (Paperback)

from elliepotten

An interesting and insightful look at the way modern society uses beauty ideals to undermine women socially and psychologically, in order to keep its politics and economy in order. The book covers various aspects of this repression, including sex, work, surgery and dieting. It occasionally veers ...

from the_awesome_opossum

The Beauty Myth is a good intro to women's studies and how women are trapped by conflicting expectations of their gender. Naomi Wolf argues that post-second wave feminism (the 1970s), women were put under greater pressure by gender expectations - because we still have to be beautiful and defer to...

from Juva

This book is a masterpiece that deserves to be savored. It's a collection of writing aimed at dissecting Western society's obsession with female beauty and the way this has been used to counter increasing female emancipation following universal suffrage. The author covers every conceivable topic ...

from caanderson

I enjoyed the book but kept getting angry every time it points out how girls and women are treated. Naomi Wolf makes point after point of how religion, media, and advertising are hurting girls and women. The daily attacks on us need to stop, we are not and have never been something to dice up and...

from AyeshaF

This book is very important and deserves to be read by both men and women. The writer has laid down her point passionately and it is not hard to see that the kind of society she is taking about will make every one better off. But I REALLY wish it had been better written. The beginning is the weak...