Naomi Wolf

The Beauty Myth

How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
Sprecher: Jackson, Suzy

• MP3-CD

Produktbeschreibung

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." "Powerful.... No other work has... so honestly depicted the confusion of accomplished women who feel emotionally and physically tortured by the need to look like movie stars." --New York Times "An important book for women--and men--to read." --Christian Science Monitor "The most important feminist publication since The Female Eunuch." --Germaine Greer "Provocative and persuasive." --Library Journal

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brilliance Audio
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 780 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781511331111
• Artikelnr.: 43482731

Autorenporträt

Naomi Wolf was born in 1962 in San Francisco. She studied at Yale before becoming a Rhodes scholar at New College, Oxford, and working in Edinburgh. The Beauty Myth was published in 1990 and was an international bestseller. This was followed by Fire with Fire, Promiscuities, Misconceptions and The Tree House.

Rezensionen

A smart, angry, insightful book, and a clarion call to freedom. Every woman should read it. Gloria Steinem