She says the "beauty myth" has replaced Betty Friedan's "feminine mystique": mirrors and tummy tucks enslave women today as stoves and diapers did in the 50s. Wolf's book brings important issues to the surface, uncomfortably, as did my esthetician. She points to TV news anchors, where men grow older and wiser, but women are replaced when they reach 40. Are so many women flirting with disaster - undergoing cosmetic surgery, smoking to keep thin - because a great body is worth any price?Īs women grow old, they grow invisible in our culture, says Wolf. Meantime, the diet industry grows fat and powerful and the average cosmetic surgeon earns $1 million a year. Wolf looks at several areas of appearance: women at work women on diets and women having unsafe, unnecessary surgery. She contends that society's emphasis on a woman's appearance makes women weaker than men socially, politically, and economically. Her book, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women, has ignited furious debate across Britain and North America. Was it worth the pain to be a bright-skinned bride?Īuthor Naomi Wolf would say no. Forty dollars later I was glowing, but throbbing. When she reached for a flickering machine that made zapping sounds, I said no thanks. Tears streamed down my face as the esthetician squeezed oil from my nose, chin, and cheeks. My friends encouraged me women's magazines have told me for years that deep cleaning unclogs pores and gives skin a "healthy glow." The week before my wedding, I went for my first facial.
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