Beauty Myth e-bog
90,41 DKK
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The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity.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 restr...
E-bog
90,41 DKK
Forlag
HarperCollins e-books
Udgivet
17 marts 2009
Længde
368 sider
Genrer
Reference works
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780061969942
The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity.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 "e;the flawless beauty."e;