Abstract
What has happened to the ideal world which the "liberated" woman of the '70s envisioned for herself in the ensuing decades? That vision has been replaced with a harsh reality. Today, the world presents her not with the opportunity to experience the joy of continued movement toward self-fulfillment, power, and prestige, but rather with a need to constantly struggle to overcome gnawing and unsatisfiable feelings of inadequacy and low selfesteem reinforced by an ideal which always exceeds her grasp. Far from having attained the goals of the early women's movement, the woman of the '90s is more tired than energetic, more hungry than fulfilled, definitely more unhappy with herself than ever before, and she has probably decided that the victories of the feminist movement were hollow ones indeed. She can't satisfy her own needs, nor those of an unfeeling society, and life offers little in the way of hope for a better world tomorrow. Such is the contention of author Naomi Wolf in her new book The Beauty Myth.
Recommended Citation
Levy, Anne C.
(1992)
"Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: HowImages of Beauty are Used Against Women,"
Utah Law Review: Vol. 1992:
No.
2, Article 8.
Available at:
https://dc.law.utah.edu/ulr/vol1992/iss2/8