However, a problem regarding the book reemerged during a recent controversy that Wolf encountered while publicizing her new book, Outrages, a documentation of Victorian-era same-sex relationships and their persecution. Wolf writes, “The real issue has nothing to do with whether women wear makeup or don’t, gain weight or lose it, have surgery or shun it, dress up or down, make our clothing and faces and bodies into works of art or ignore adornment altogether. The real problem is our lack of choice.” It was a groundbreaking idea for its time. Women from all walks of life cannot seize power and happiness completely, because their insecurity at personal appearance - while bombarded by brands, fashion editorials, and pornography - is so profound that it mentally pulls them back. In The Beauty Myth, Wolf argues that the standard of beauty and feminine traits assigned to women are devaluing. Although revolutionary in its prose and critical analysis, Wolf’s book fails at one vital juncture: accuracy. Many women have confessed that Wolf’s book was the antidote that woke them from the thrall of advertising, glamour and the intense need to conform to physical perfection. Naomi Wolf’s The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women has long been heralded as one of the greatest feminist books written.
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