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

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Publisher: Anchor
Book Type: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9780385423977 - ISBN-10: 0385423977
Publication Date: 6/20/1992
Pages: 368


Other Versions of this Book: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette

Book Description:
Explores the phenomenon of the violent backlash  against feminism that uses images of female beauty  as a political weapon against women's advancement.

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Jody W. (apachesun) wrote on 8/3/2007...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

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.

Holly S. wrote on 3/15/2006...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

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

Barbara C. (kewl) wrote on 11/20/2005...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

"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

Mac L. (mac) wrote on 9/4/2005...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

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'"

K E M. (Rampallion) wrote on 8/5/2005...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

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


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Ruth Z. wrote on 8/16/2007...


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


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