Beauty myth: stereotypes against women. Wulf N.

“The myth of beauty” is the cult work of an American writer and journalist Naomi Wulf. In it, the author talks about where stereotypical ideas about female beauty come from and why they limit the freedom of women no less than the patriarchal “home slavery”. Physical perfection becomes an obsessive idea for women, and the inconsistency with him is a source of suffering. But even having reached the ideal, the woman still loses, because she sacrifices her natural beauty, health, energy, sexuality, and sometimes life as a generally accepted standard of appearance.

The author claims that in the modern world, a woman herself is able to decide how she wants to live and look, without looking at the dictates of a ruthless “myth of beauty”. Undoubtedly, the book can be fascinating and useful for men, because in the process of its transformation the myth involves more and more in its sphere of its influence, imposing on them sometimes harsh and meaningless rules.

The book “Myth of Beauty”, translated into dozens of languages, has become a bestseller in many countries of the world. To date, this is the most loud, quoted and discussed feminist work.