“These days, it is perhaps even more psychologically seamless than ever for an ordinary woman to spend her life walking toward the idealized mirage of her own self-image. She can believe – reasonably enough, and with the full encouragement of feminism – that she herself is the architect of the exquisite, constant and often pleasurable type of power that this image holds over her time, her money, her decisions, her selfhood and her soul.” BeautyFeminismCapitalismEmpowermentSelfhoodBeauty Ideals Book:Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion Source: Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion