Author:
Title:
The beauty myth : how images of beauty are used against women. --
Classification:
305.42 W853
Publisher:
New York, NY, Estados Unidos : Perennial, c2002.
Description:
348 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:
9780060512187
Subjects:
Notes:
Incluye referencias bibliográficas (Pp. 329-335) e índice.
Contents:
The beauty myth. -- Work. -- Culture. -- Religion. -- Sex. -- Hunger. -- Violence. -- Beyond the beauty myth. --
Summary:
Tomado de la pasta: "In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of "the flawless beauty." --
