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The mass depiction of the modern woman as a "beauty" is a contradiction: Where modern women are growing, moving, and expressing their individuality, as the myth has it, "beauty" is by definition inert, timeless, and generic. That this hallucination is necessary and deliberate is evident in the way "beauty" so directly contradicts women's real situation.


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Ultimately Wolf argues for a relaxation of normative standards of beauty. Wolf argues that women were under assault by the "beauty myth" in five areas: work religion sex violence and hunger. End of America was favorably reviewed in The New York Times by Stephen Holden as well as in Variety Magazine.

Wolf (born November 12 1962) is an American author and former political consultant. With the publication of the 1991 bestselling book The Beauty Myth Naomi Wolf became a leading spokesperson of what was later described as the third wave of the feminist movement.

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