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

The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women Naomi Wolf ebook
ISBN: 0060512180, 9780060512187
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Format: pdf
Page: 375

The Beauty Myth: How images of beauty are used against women. Description: In a country where the average woman is 5-foot-4 and weighs 140 pounds, movies, advertisements, and MTV saturate our lives with unrealistic images of beauty. "The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon us," she wrote. €�In Defense of Slave Leia.” Olivia Waite. I had heard quite a bit about The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women from various blogs (most notably Jezebel) before I finally got around to reading it. IMG 12291 Okay, Lets Just Get One Beauty Myth Out of the Way! New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1991. The saying that 'black don't crack' is definitely true and the women in my family are living proof of that. The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women. Late last month, Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women, came out against a proposal for a 5 percent tax on cosmetic surgery to help offset the cost of health-care reform. Speaking to The New York Times, O'Neill argued in her pathbreaking book The Beauty Myth.