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  • Published: 2 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9781784870416
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $12.99
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The Beauty Myth (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)




Naomi Wolf's urgent and important exposé of the cult of beauty in abridged, accessible form.

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

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 shortened edition you will find the essence of Wolf’s groundbreaking book. It is a radical, gripping and frank exposé of the tyranny of the beauty myth, its oppressive function and the destructive obsession it engenders.

  • Published: 2 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9781784870416
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $12.99
Categories:

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 (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)

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
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