The Beauty Myth: Themes

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on their masculinity by their achievements and women’s femininity has been based upon by there looks. The fourth issue in the book is about health. The book talks about how women would jeopardize their health to look good for men by starving themselves or by having another form of an eating disorder. The fifth and last issue in the book is that of violence. One example given is that women would subject themselves to plastic surgery to become more attractive to men. This, in a way, is a type of violence to a woman.
“A woman looks like a million dollars, she’s a first-class beauty, her face is her fortune” (Wolf 20). This is one of the openings in the chapter on work. This statement defines the main idea of woman as objects in the workplace. Women base their own self worth on their looks through the eyes the male gender. “With youth and beauty, then, the working woman is visible, but insecure, made to feel her qualities are not unique. But without them, she is invisible - she falls, ...

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in their sexual role. Basically, beauty is important for sexual reasons. “Images that flatten sex into ‘beauty,’ and flatten the beauty into something inhuman, or subject her eroticized torment, are politically and socioeconomically welcome” (143). Images of beauty are related to the sex scene. Some women get the idea through men that because they are not beautiful they cannot get anyone to have sex with them. They have to have the perfect face and body in order for men to like you. Some men give the idea that they only like women who are beautiful. The reason that women get the idea is because “they choose a lover because of the smell from a coat, a way of walking, the shape of a lip, ...

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