The Beauty Myth : How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women Condition:Like New From Plato to the present

From Plato to the present time

and no way out

tail curled around and feet tucked in

Artemus Ward and David L

The Beauty Myth : How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women Condition:Like New From Plato to the presentIn the struggle for women's equality, there is one subject still shrouded in silence women's compulsive pursuit of beauty. The myth of female beauty challenges every woman, every day of her life. The author exposes the tyranny of the beauty myth through the ages and its oppressive function today, in the home and at work, in literature and the media, in relationships between men and women, between women and women. With examples, she confronts the