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published
June 7th 1991
by Vintage
binding
Paperback, 352 pages
isbn
0099861909
(isbn13: 9780099861904)
description
In a country where the average woman is 5-foot-4 and weighs 140 pounds, movies, advertisements, and MTV saturate our lives with unrealistic images of ...more
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I've read several criticisms of Wolf's standpoint recently, and I'm interested to read for myself. Does she write from the assumption that woman = white unless otherwise noted? Is her feminism specific enough to be useful in general application? Is it extrapolated from the experiences of white, educated women but assumed to apply to non-privileged members of the group labeled "Women"?
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Read in January, 2001
I was thinking about this book the other day. I read it in college as part of my research paper on the "beauty myth". I struggled so much with the issues discussed and this book made me see that it wasn't just me. There isn't anything wrong with the way we are as women, just the way society portrays women. Probably something we should read every few years.
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Read in March, 2007
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non-fiction junkies
this book will help you articulate that creepy feeling that you get when you see those Doc Martin Ads the women with huge baby face heads, tiny bodies and large high heals. This is one of her most radical books, she wrote it while very young, I think she has kind of tamed out since then.
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Read in January, 2007
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feminists
This book is not too violently feminist (well, so far. I'm only 1/3rd way thru). It also has some interesting insights that are pretty logically argued. The only caution I have is that I've heard that some of Wolf's statistics are false.
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Read in September, 2008
No review yet, but my book club picked it for June so I'll be reading it soon. BTW, I voted for Dawkins' "The God Delusion". Damn, I may be the only dude on this website ever to read this book...
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NYPL ebooks are the way to read things on the DL at work...Then I got a new job and never finished this, maybe some day soon.
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This sounds like the kind of book I can shout "Amen" to.
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I have wanted to read this book for so long!
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