How many women are in a Catch-22 at work - you must be pretty and feminine, but not TOO pretty and feminine, else it's your fault for sexual harassment! At a time when many are saying there is no need for feminism, Wolf shows that sexism is still alive and well and how trying to adhere to the Perfect Woman is holding women back.Īs I dig more and more into feminism, particularly the portion where women take great pains to look the part that society tells them (sexual, but not TOO sexual, smart but not TOO smart), I kept seeing this book. How many women rush to pursue the next makeup line instead of equal pay for equal work. A seminal feminist work, "The Beauty Myth" digs into the ways that the pursuit of beauty has hampered feminism.
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