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

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

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“She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.”

— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com

Tagged: The Male Gaze, Bodies In The Male Gaze, The Desire To Be Desired, Self-Validation, Female Beauty

“Could it be then that women's famous slowness of arousal to men's, complex fantasy life, the lack of pleasure many experience in intercourse, is related to this cultural negation of sexual imagery that affirms the female point of view, the culture prohibition against seeing men's bodies as instrumen…”

— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com

Tagged: Male Gaze, The Male Gaze, Female Desire, Female Sexuality, Female Sexuality In The Male Gaze

“Since their bodies are seen from the point of view of strangeness and desire, it is no wonder that what should be familiar, felt to be whole, become estranged and divided into parts. What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.”

— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com

Tagged: The Male Gaze, Bodies In The Male Gaze, The Desire To Be Desired, Estranged From The Body, Estranged From Your Own Desire

“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”

— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com

Tagged: The Beauty Myth, Social Construct of Beauty, Political Sedatives, Female Obedience, Obsession and Agenda

“Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalities because they are trained early into that response, while women are less visually aroused and more emotionally aroused because that is their training. This asymmetry in sexual education maintains m…”

— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com

Tagged: shallow, Attraction, inner beauty, looks, gender

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

— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com

Tagged: beauty, thin, Weight, obedience