The Beauty Myth: How Images Of Beauty Are Used Against Women

Wolf, Naomi

ISBN 10: 0688085105 / ISBN 13: 9780688085100

Published by William Morrow & Co, 1991

About this Item

Signed. First Edition. Dust jacket has mylar covering it.

Seller Inventory # mon0003770363

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Beauty Myth: How Images Of Beauty Are Used Against Women
• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0688085105
• ISBN 13: 9780688085100
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket.
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Argues that the myth of female beauty psychologically undermines the advances achieved by the women's movement, and reveals the tyranny of the beauty myth in women's lives at home and at work, in the media, and in relationships

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)