The Power of Beauty
eBook - ePub

The Power of Beauty

  1. 589 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Power of Beauty

About this book

Reflections on how physical appearance, and beliefs about it, affect women's lives from a #1 bestselling author who's "enormously fun to read" ( The New York Times).
 
Beauty and appearance play a pervasive role in our culture. Here, the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the groundbreaking, controversial bestseller My Secret Garden delves into beauty's influence on popular media and the psyche of modern women.
 
Combining in-depth cultural analysis with personal anecdotes, sexology, and individual case studies, Nancy Friday explores the dissatisfaction women feel about their bodies—and how it affects their sexual freedom. Her analysis is broad-reaching, examining how popular culture, advertising, stereotypes of women in the workplace, the sexual liberation of the 1960s, and the dynamics of family relationships put pressure on women to live up to an impossible feminine ideal.
 
Also published under the title Our Looks, Our Lives

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Information

Publisher
RosettaBooks
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9780795335198
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Human Sexuality in Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. I. The Gaze
  8. II. Envy
  9. III. The Years of Invention
  10. IV. The Dance of Adolescence: Girls
  11. V. The Dance of Adolescence: Boys
  12. VI. Feminism and Beauty
  13. VII. Men in the Mirror
  14. VIII. The Penis, the Shoe, and the Vagina
  15. IX. Changing the Double Standard of Aging
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography

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