Naomi Wolf
Born: 01-01-1962
Naomi Wolf is an American author, journalist, and feminist known for her influential works on women's issues and social criticism. She gained prominence with her book "The Beauty Myth," which explores societal pressures on women. A Yale graduate and Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, Wolf's writing often challenges cultural norms and advocates for gender equality. Her work spans various topics, including politics, sexuality, and media, making her a prominent voice in contemporary feminist discourse.
Book summaries for books written by Naomi Wolf
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The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.
The beauty myth is about women's failure to comply with its demands.
The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon us.
The beauty myth tells a story: the quality called 'beauty' objectively and universally exists.
The modern arsenal of the myth is a dissemination of millions of images of the current ideal.
The beauty myth has been used to enforce female bondage.
In a world in which women are truly equal, the beauty myth would have to wither away.
The beauty myth: an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless cycle of hopelessness, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society’s impossible definition of flawless beauty.
The beauty myth sets it up this way: A high rating as an art object is the most valuable tribute a woman can exact from her lover.
The beauty myth tells a story about a cultural preoccupation with thinness and dieting that is not about health and fitness.
The beauty myth is not about women at all. It is about men's institutions and institutional power.
The beauty myth - an obsession with physical perfection that traps modern woman in an endless cycle of hopelessness, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society’s impossible definition of flawless beauty.