The Beauty Myth

What it is about

Naomi Wolf argues that as women gained legal and professional power, beauty standards became a renewed form of discipline. She examines advertising, work, sexuality, food, media, and cosmetic culture to show how an impossible ideal converts insecurity into compliance and profit. I need this book close whenever I start thinking the question has become simple.

Why I keep it

Beauty as a job requirement. Still true, still worth the anger.

Key ideas

Beside it on the shelf · Gender & Society