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

When Naomi Wolfe wrote The Beauty Myth more than three decades ago, she chastened the industry for pushing an unrealistic standard of beauty that prevented women from reaching their full potential, much as ideals of domesticity, motherhood and chastity once did.

I mean that's a narrative she buys but you know she was raped when she was 11 and then she had a pretty dismal experience with someone who was supposed to mentor her in university and it left fractured and with a permanent animus against men you know and and you can see that sort of thing spiraling out of control but your mother had respect for these historical figures what was the relationship between your mother and your father like on the personal front look um

All right so the gen exers in your audience will probably remember that in the 90s she published a real breakthrough book it was a big deal when I was in university came out when I was in second year university called The Beauty Myth and it was a book that argued that there was a kind of tax on women just at the moment that women were achieving higher levels of quality shattering the glass ceiling in a lot of workplaces.

In college, I took this women in media class that really blew my mind and we read this book That's a very famous book by naomi wolf called the beauty myth And it truly blew my mind because it just broke down you know how

She wrote a blockbuster book that kind of took the world by storm I was a baby feminist on campus called beauty beauty myth.