As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.
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Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

By Naomi Wolf

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

By Naomi Wolf

Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

By Naomi Wolf

Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

By Naomi Wolf

If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community.

By Naomi Wolf

She may resent

By Naomi Wolf

The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold.

By Naomi Wolf

Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women.

By Naomi Wolf

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.

By Naomi Wolf

Men who read it [beauty pornography] don't do so because they want

By Naomi Wolf

Health makes good propaganda.

By Naomi Wolf

What editors are obliged to appear to say that

By Naomi Wolf

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

By Naomi Wolf

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

By Naomi Wolf

She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.

By Naomi Wolf
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