![]() ![]() ![]() In The Beauty Myth book, we are presented with the idea that attaining beauty is a concept that is being used to oppress women. They enter a cycle of punishment and elation which is fed by endless “selfies” on social media and mindless vanity that detracts from all the hard work by feminists in the past who struggled tirelessly to achieve equality for women. Wolf believes that beauty is the currency used by men to enable them to keep their dominant position over women.īy being obsessed with attaining perfection in their bodies, women are now suffering from a range of eating disorders, low self-esteem, and spiraling depression. Having attained certain freedoms, like having careers and making lifestyle choices, they are now being controlled by the idea that they must be physically perfect in every way and at any cost. In the past, women were forced to be submissive homemakers and wives. Wolf was trying to say that the progress that had been made in women’s rights was now being undermined by a new kind of social control. ![]()
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