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Synopsis
A look at the beauty myth exposes the unrealistic, impossible standards of female beauty as destructive social control, asserting that the myth of female perfection is created by the media and the diet, fashion, and cosmetic industries. Reprint.
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Review
"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)
Book Description
Provocative, punchy and important, this is one of the essential classics of modern feminist literature.
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- PublisherAnchor Books
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0385423977
- ISBN 13 9780385423977
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages348
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