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Name: The beauty myth : how images of beauty are used against women
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Author: Naomi Wolf

📘 The beauty myth : how images of beauty are used against women by Naomi Wolf

With the women’s movement yielding unprecedented legal recognition, professional success, and power, Naomi Wolf warns of a parallel force: the beauty myth. She argues that the obsessive emphasis on physical perfection traps modern women in a never‑ending spiral of hope, self‑consciousness, and self‑hatred as they attempt to meet society’s impossible standards of flawless beauty.

First publish date: 1991

Genre: Psychology/Social Psychology

Authors: Naomi Wolf

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