Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
Naomi WolfTags: self-esteem beauty society body-image appearance
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.
Naomi WolfTags: self-esteem beauty society body-image appearance eating-disorders
Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
Naomi WolfTags: self-esteem beauty society appearance images
Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.
Naomi WolfTags: self-esteem beauty society culture body-image eating-disorders images
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.
Naomi WolfTags: beauty society culture body-image weight eating-disorders images
Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.
Naomi WolfTags: beauty society culture dieting body-image weight eating-disorders
Eating is not a crime. It’s not a moral issue. It’s normal. It’s enjoyable. It just is.
Carrie ArnoldTags: self-esteem society eating body-image weight eating-disorders diet-industry
Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.
Cheri K. ErdmanTags: self-esteem society culture diets body-image weight eating-disorders diet-industry
Healthy emotions come in all sizes. Healthy minds come in all sizes. And healthy bodies come in all sizes.
Cheri K. ErdmanTags: self-esteem beauty society diets body-image diet-industry
The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon us...During the past decade, women breached the power structure; meanwhile, eating disorders rose exponentially and cosmetic surgery became the fastest-growing specialty...pornography became the main media category, ahead of legitimate films and records combined, and thirty-three thousand American women told researchers that they would rather lose ten to fifteen pounds than achieve any other goal...More women have more money and power and scope and legal recognition than we have ever had before; but in terms of how we feel about ourselves physically, we may actually be worse off than our unliberated grandmothers.
Naomi WolfTags: self-esteem beauty society eating-disorders images
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