Beauty myth: stereotypes against women

What is this book about
"The myth of beauty" is a cult work of an American writer and journalist Naomi Wulf. In it, the author talks about where stereotypical ideas about female beauty come from and why they limit the freedom of women no less than patriarchal "home slavery". Physical perfection becomes an obsessive idea for women, and the inconsistency with him is a source of suffering. But even having reached the ideal, the woman still loses, because she sacrifices her natural beauty, health, energy, sexuality, and sometimes life as a generally accepted standard of appearance. The author claims that in the modern world a woman herself is able to decide how she wants to live and look, without looking at the dictatorship of a ruthless "myth of beauty". Undoubtedly, the book can be fascinating and useful for men, because in the process of its transformation the myth more and more involves them in the sphere of its influence, imposing them sometimes strict and meaningless rules.
Why is the book worthy of reading
The book "Myth of Beauty", translated into dozens of languages, became a bestseller in many countries of the world. To date, this is the most loud, quoted and discussed feminist work.
For whom this book
This book is for any modern woman, as well as for men who want to understand women more.
Who is the author
Naomi Wulf graduated from Yale University and the new college of Oxford University, where she studied, having received the Rhodes international scholarship. The author of world bestsellers" Promiscuity "(Promiscuits)," Fire with Fire) and "misunderstandings". Her essays were published in many print media. Lives with his family in New York