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The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity.In today s world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women s movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It s the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society s impossible definition of the flawless beauty.