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"The most important feminist publication since The Female Eunuch." -Germaine Greer
"This is one of the most brilliant books I have seen...groundbreaking." -Shere Hite
"A vivid and impassioned polemic, essential reading for the New Woman--" -Fay Weldon
"--an exuberant feminist analysis of women's enslavement to false ideals of beauty. It may well set the agenda for the next wave of social liberation." -The Montreal Gazette
"This is one of the most brilliant books I have seen...groundbreaking." -Shere Hite
"A vivid and impassioned polemic, essential reading for the New Woman--" -Fay Weldon
"--an exuberant feminist analysis of women's enslavement to false ideals of beauty. It may well set the agenda for the next wave of social liberation." -The Montreal Gazette
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The controversial, critically-acclaimed, bestselling book that kickstarted the third wave of feminism is now available with a new introduction and a new look.
In 1990, Naomi Wolf published The Beauty Myth - a book that catapulted Wolf into the international spotlight and onto bestseller lists everywhere (88 straight weeks on The Globe and Mail bestseller list). The effects it had on feminist discourse can still be felt today (and in some ways are even more relevant), and the author's new introduction will help put all the controversy, debate, and media it inspired in context for the next millennium.
In 1990, Naomi Wolf published The Beauty Myth - a book that catapulted Wolf into the international spotlight and onto bestseller lists everywhere (88 straight weeks on The Globe and Mail bestseller list). The effects it had on feminist discourse can still be felt today (and in some ways are even more relevant), and the author's new introduction will help put all the controversy, debate, and media it inspired in context for the next millennium.
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Great book,
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This review is from: The Beauty Myth (Paperback)
This was one of the first books I read that looked critically at female body image and beauty ideals and it changed my life. I can't say enough about this book... I loved it.
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The Definitive Women's Handbook,
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Every woman should read this book; in fact every human being should read this book because it addresses the beauty myth for both men and woman. For men, this book will help them understand how their own behaviour plays a role and how they are impacted by the myth and it will also help them understand how their wives, sisters, mothers and daughters are affected by this myth. For women, this book thoroughly explains the modern female experience. I found myself wishing I had read this book when I was younger (I just turned 30), however I somehow doubt that I would have had enough life experience to really understand what this book talks about. This book has inspired me to a better woman: someone who loves her body, who is turned on by genuine human love not violence and pornography, does not buy everything that corporations insist I need to be beautiful and who really engages with other women of all generations about these issues so that we stop seeing each other as a threat.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Life Changing,
By Kim (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Beauty Myth (Paperback)
I borrowed this book from the town library when I was about 15 years old. I understood and had already internalized many of the social norms for female appearance. (Now 23, working on a B.A. in Law and Justice/Sociology; I had to look this up for a cite in my paper.)I was prompted to write by a previous comment regarding the possibility that striving for beauty is an evolutionary trait. What comes to my mind are both the peacock and the turkey as well as many species of fish where the males are the ones with beautiful colouring or plumage to attract the females attention. Regardless of any evolutionary desire to be beautiful, it is clear, after reading the book, that partriacal authority has appropraiated it, and perhaps mutated it, in order to reinforce that system.
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