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BEAUTY

MYTH
By Naomi Wolf

CULTURE

Role of Literature

-- Beauty without intelligence or intelligence


without beauty
-- Jane Eyres writings for true beauty
Role of magazines

-- Men and Women who make the editorial


decisions often compromise their very own high
standards in the interest of the advertising dollar.
-- Transfer of guilt

RELIGION
Beauty myth as the new belief

Women have embraced it to fill the spiritual void.


A mans right to confer judgment on any womans

beauty.
he for God only and she for God in him.

The devotees are trapped in something more serious.


The beauty belief reassured in women, the moral

structure lost with the old religion.


The pure versus the beautiful.

THE STRUCTURE OF NEW


RELIGION
CREATION: And the Lord God caused a deep sleep

to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his


ribs....,
ORIGNAL SIN: Rites recast original skin in such a way

that no young girl can feel it is too early to worry about


the stains of female ugliness invisible.

LIGHT: Eves sin meant that women are responsible for

losing grace.
The Holy oil.
THE FEAR OF FAT: The individual and group practices

of a weight maniac.

Violence

-Social Pressure
One must suffer to be beautiful - French Proverb

Hunger makes womens bodies hurt them,


and makes women hurt their bodies.

Types of Ideologies:
1. Victorian Era
Back to the era of 1860s
Childbed and birth related complications.
Women must labor to be beautiful W. B. Yeats
Socially lacked, Uneducated.
As time move on, women educated themselves.
Created a gap.
2. Surgical Age (Medical Era)
Back to 19th and 20th Century

Beauty related issue

Women should live hungry, die young and leave a pretty corpse
Purpose of both ideology was to impose upon women what society needs
from them.

Institutional Reclassification
Making ideology large and institutionalize.
It would benefit physicians to look upon ugliness not as cosmetic issue but
as disease President American Aging Association

PROFIT
Easy profit, industry of $300Million growing 10% annually.

As a businessman, the doctor had a direct interest in a social role for

women that require them to be sick Ehrenreich and English

If women suddenly stopped feeling ugly, the fastest growing medical

specialty would be fastest dying. Research Analyst

Ethics
Cosmetic techniques appear to be developed as irresponsible

medical experiment.
Surgical age remains socially, ethically and politically
unexamined.
Nine women died in US in Improved Liposuction theory
because physician are absence of hands on experience during
training.

Our Willingness to wrestle with such issues is taken as


a sign of society moral Health.

CONCLUSION

Natural and unnatural are not in question. The choice between PLEASURE
and PAIN, FREEDOM and COMPULSION is the actual struggle.
To go beyond the beauty myth, we need to care least about how women

look like as long as we feel beautiful.


The real problem is our lack of choice.
More women have more money and power and scope and legal recognition

than we have ever had before; but in terms of how we feel about ourselves
physically, we may actually be worse off than our unliberated grandmothers.

CONCLUSION
Natural

and unnatural are not in question. The choice between


PLEASURE and PAIN, FREEDOM and COMPULSION is the
actual struggle.
To go beyond the beauty myth, we need to care least about
how women look like as long as we feel beautiful.
The real problem is our lack of choice.
More women have more money and power and scope and legal
recognition than we have ever had before; but in terms of how
we feel about ourselves physically, we may actually be worse off
than our unliberated grandmothers.

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