The Beauty Myth
  • Published: 2 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9780099595748
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $22.99
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The Beauty Myth

How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women

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2 Mar 2015
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31 Aug 2013
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2 Nov 1993
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Provocative, punchy and important, this is one of the essential classics of modern feminist literature.

The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity .

Every day, women around the world are confronted with a dilemma – how to look. In a society embroiled in a cult of female beauty and youthfulness, pressure on women to conform physically is constant and all-pervading. In this iconic, gripping and frank exposé, 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.

‘Essential reading’ Guardian

‘A smart, angry, insightful book, and a clarion call to freedom. Every woman should read it’ Gloria Steinem
  • Published: 2 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9780099595748
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf is a bestselling American writer, known for her advocacy of feminism and progressive politics. She studied at Yale before becoming a Rhodes Scholar at New College, Oxford, and working in Edinburgh. She became internationally famous with the publication of her first book, The Beauty Myth, in 1991, and has gone on to write many subsequent titles, including: Fire with Fire, Promiscuities, Misconceptions, The Tree House and Vagina: A New Biography.

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Praise for The Beauty Myth

A smart, angry, insightful book, and a clarion call to freedom. Every woman should read it.

Gloria Steinem

Powerful... 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 Greer

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

Essential reading

Fay Weldon

This is one of the most brilliant books...One doesn't have to agree with every sentence or even every implication of the statements to realise that they revolutionise the discussion of women's magazines and other parts of the ideology about women

Shere Hite

Naomi Wolf's uncompromising, hard-hitting investigation of the coercion of women by the Beauty Myth has the power to changes lives

Kim Chernin, author of The Obsession and The Hungry Self

The Beauty Myth is angry, gripping and frank… Knowledge is power, and Wolf arms us with the power to appreciate our bodies for what they are

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