The Beauty Myth
The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
Reviewed by Jess
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"Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it." This book truly is a feminist education. What I loved about these essays so much (probably because Iโm a scientist!) is that Naomi Wolf often uses excellent factual cases for women's inequality at work, play and otherwise. Itโs such an eye opener to read that women seem to have been coming up short for years in everything, and for unnecessary reasons, in bold print. What I didnโt like so much was sometimes she becomes repetitive with her thoughts; her arguments then become boring and lose strength. Still, despite being published in 1990, Wolf making her case for women to rise above The Beauty Myth is still as relevant today, if not more so.