Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
Author: Naomi Wolf
'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy it is determined by politics and in the modern age in the West is is the last best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.
'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy it is determined by politics and in the modern age in the West is is the last best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.
Most urgently women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.
Most urgently women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.
No matter what a woman's appearance may be it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize – as her personal problem – observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
No matter what a woman's appearance may be it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize – as her personal problem – observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.