The Beauty Myth (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)

A smart, angry, insightful book, and a clarion call to freedom. Every woman should read it – Gloria SteinemPowerful… No other work has…so honestly depicted the confusion of accomplished women who feel emotionally and physically tortured by the need to look like movie stars * New York Times *The most important feminist publication since The Female Eunuch – Germaine GreerA brilliant, bracing book…The world has changed - a bit - over the past decade and a half, but not enough: this remains essential reading * Guardian *Essential reading * Fay Weldon *This is one of the most brilliant books…One doesn’t have to agree with every sentence or even every implication of the statements to realise that they revolutionise the discussion of women’s magazines and other parts of the ideology about women – Shere HiteNaomi Wolf’s uncompromising, hard-hitting investigation of the coercion of women by the Beauty Myth has the power to changes lives – Kim Chernin, author of The Obsession and The Hungry Self

Naomi Wolf is a bestselling American writer, known for her advocacy of feminism and progressive politics. She studied at Yale before becoming a Rhodes Scholar at New College, Oxford, and working in Edinburgh. She became internationally famous with the publication of her first book, The Beauty Myth, in 1991, and has gone on to write many subsequent titles, including- Fire with Fire, Promiscuities, Misconceptions, The Tree House and Vagina- A New Biography.