Critics have challenged the quality and accuracy of the scholarship in her books her serious misreading of court records for Outrages (2019) led to its US publication being cancelled. Wolf's later books include the bestseller The End of America in 2007 and Vagina: A New Biography. In the 1990s, she was a political advisor to the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton and Al Gore.
Others, including Camille Paglia, criticized it. Feminists including Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan praised her work. įollowing her first book The Beauty Myth (1991), she became a leading spokeswoman of what has been described as the third wave of the feminist movement. It is a radical, gripping and frank expose of the tyranny of the beauty myth, its oppressive function and the destructive obsession it engenders.Naomi Rebekah Wolf (born November 12, 1962) is an American feminist author, journalist and conspiracy theorist. In this shortened edition you will find the essence of Wolf's groundbreaking book. In a society embroiled in a cult of female beauty and youthfulness, pressure on women to conform physically is constant and all-pervading. Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR Every day, women around the world are confronted with a dilemma - how to look. It is a radical, gripping and frank expose of the tyranny of the beauty myth, its oppressive function and the destructive obsession it.
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