A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.
Naomi WolfTag: 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 WolfTag: beauty society culture dieting body-image weight eating-disorders
If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community.
Naomi WolfTag: beauty culture body-image weight eating-disorders thinness
Eating is not a crime. It’s not a moral issue. It’s normal. It’s enjoyable. It just is.
Carrie ArnoldTag: 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. ErdmanTag: self-esteem society culture diets body-image weight eating-disorders diet-industry
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
Simone de BeauvoirTag: self-esteem beauty body-image weight eating-disorders 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 WolfTag: self-esteem beauty society eating-disorders images
Why does the social order feel the need to defend itself by evading the fact of real women, our faces and voices and bodies, and reducing the meaning of women to these formulaic and endlessly reproduced "beautiful" images? Though unconscious personal anxieties can be a powerful force in the creation of a vital lie, economic necessity practically guarantees it. An economy that depends on slavery needs to promote images of slaves that "justify" the institution of slavery. Western economies are absolutely dependent now on the continued underpayment of women. An idealogy that makes women feel "worth less" was urgently needed to counteract the way feminism had begun to make us feel worth more. This does not require a conspiracy; merely an atmosphere. The contemporary economy depends right now on the representation of women within the beauty myth.
Naomi WolfTag: sexuality equality self-esteem beauty society advertising feminism culture magazines aging cosmetics double-standards objectification body-image marketing pornography eating-disorders images plastic-surgery diet-industry cosmetic-surgery fashion-industry mass-culture
The beauty myth of the present is more insidious than any mystique of femininity yet: A century ago, Nora slammed the door of the doll's house; a generation ago, women turned their backs on the consumer heaven of the isolated multiapplianced home; but where women are trapped today, there is no door to slam. The contemporary ravages of the beauty backlash are destroying women physically and depleting us psychologically. If we are to free ourselves from the dead weight that has once again been made out of femaleness, it is not ballots or lobbyists or placards that women will need first; it is a new way to see.
Naomi WolfTag: self-esteem beauty society advertising magazines marketing eating-disorders images
The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.
Naomi WolfTag: self-esteem beauty society advertising body-image eating-disorders
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