The Beauty Myth

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 WeldonThis 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 SelfThe Beauty Myth is angry, gripping and frank… Knowledge is power, and Wolf arms us with the power to appreciate our bodies for what they are * Stylist *

Naomi Wolf was born in 1962 in San Francisco. She studied at Yale before becoming a Rhodes scholar at New College, Oxford, and working in Edinburgh. The Beauty Myth was published in 1990 and was an international bestseller. This was followed by Fire with Fire, Promiscuities, Misconceptions and The Tree House.