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The Beauty Myth Naomi Wolf

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The “Beauty Myth” is a reading that talked about the standard that men decide is necessary to be beautiful. Naomi Wolf shows us how as women have become more liberated the standards of what makes a women considered beautiful have become stricter. Throughout her story Wolf shares with us that beauty is completely subjective in that it changes with cultures and with age. Women were actively gaining more legal and material rights through the women’s movement. Wolf states, “Many women that women’s collective progress has stalled; compared with the heady momentum of earlier days, there is a dispiriting climate of confusion, division, cynicism, and above all, exhaustion.” (10 p.2) As the movement had died down women were beginning to feel that effects

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