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MYTH
By Naomi Wolf
CULTURE
Role of Literature
RELIGION
Beauty myth as the new belief
beauty.
he for God only and she for God in him.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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