Book Reviews of The Beauty Myth : How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

This is an amazing, insightful book on how society over-emphasizes beauty to the point that young girls and women equate it with our personal value. This book helped me immensely with my own self worth.

this is a thought provoking book for women of all ages. particularly good for those of us raising girls to be assertive women.

"Powerful . . . No other work has . . .sho honestly depicted the confusion of accomplished women who feel emotionally and physically tortured by the need to look like movie stars." New York Times

This is a really powerful book that shows how, "Western women have escaped from one form of enslavement only to fall into another - the increasingly insidious 'beauty myth'"

"_The Beauty Myth_ is a smart, angry, insightful book, and a clarion call to freedom. Every woman should read it." --Gloria Steinem

There are some markings in this book from the previous reader--nothing that interferes with a good read.