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Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-m — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Beauty" and sexuality are both commonly misunderstood as some transcendent inevitable fact; falsely interlocking the two — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women.According to Appel, cult m — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
The beauty myth of the present is more insidious than any mystique of femininity yet: A century ago, Nora slammed the do — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Cosmetic surgery is not "cosmetic," and human flesh is not "plastic." Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not lik — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern a — Naomi Wolf
Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval — Naomi Wolf
Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community. — Naomi Wolf
In a sexual double standard as to who receives consumer protection, it seems that if what you do is done to women in the — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cu — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of fe — Naomi Wolf
The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held h — Naomi Wolf
Why does the social order feel the need to defend itself by evading the fact of real women, our faces and voices and bod — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Where woman do not fit the Iron Maiden [societal expectations/assumptions about women's bodies], we are now being called — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Sexual satisfaction eases the stranglehold of materialism, since status symbols no longer look sexual, but irrelevant. P — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's he — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. Th — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth