The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women Condition:Like New and Picasso

and Picasso

Susan Orlean gathers a lifetime of musings

Slight tanning and moderate foxing on edges of book

a diplomat and a two-term president of Singapore

groups of friends

The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women Condition:Like New and PicassoThe 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.