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Also by Naomi Wolf:

Vagina, September 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Give Me Liberty, September 2008
Hardcover
The End of America, September 2007
Hardcover
The Treehouse, April 2006
Trade Size (reprint)
The Beauty Myth, October 2002
Paperback (reprint)

The Beauty Myth
Naomi Wolf

How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

HarperCollins
October 2002
368 pages
ISBN: 0060512180
Paperback (reprint)
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Self-Help

The bestselling classic that redefined our view od 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 "the flawless beauty."

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