LoginThe Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
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In a country where the average woman is 5-foot-4 and weighs 140 pounds, movies, advertisements, and MTV saturate our lives with unrealistic images of beauty. The tall, nearly emaciated mannequins that push the latest miracle cosmetic make even the most confident woman question her appearance. Feminist Naomi Wolf argues that women's insecurities are heightened by these images, then exploited by the diet, cosmetic, and plastic surgery industries. Every day new products are introduced to "correct" inherently female "flaws," drawing women into an obsessive and hopeless cycle built around the att
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Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Release date: 24 September 2002
ISBN-10 : 0060512180 | ISBN-13: 9780060512187
Release date: 24 September 2002
ISBN-10 : 0060512180 | ISBN-13: 9780060512187
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