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The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

Book by Naomi Wolf · 6 quotes · Beauty Myth, Self Esteem, Esteem

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“No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.”

“A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.”

“As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women.”