The Beauty Myth

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 the flawless beauty.