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Women in Mass Images AlterLinks Topic Index The Beauty Myth How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 Writer and Journalist Naomi Wolf calls the current all pervasive need for women to attain an intangible physical beauty ideal the "beauty myth". It is calculated to disenpower women and is a complex pervasive backlash againts feminism. Women are seduced by the beauty myth because it holds promise of power. Women will remain tied to this myth until they realize that power may be revoked as easily as granted. The beauty myth was created to hold women's progress back not to liberate it. Connexions Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1986 Connexions Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1988 I am not that Woman in a burqa A Palestinian novelist remembers the liberated, educated women of her life, and how their freedom has been, and is being, curtailed. Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Palestinian novelist Sahar Khalifeh discusses growing up as a girl and woman in Arab culture, and how Arab women are represented in Western culture. Idols of Perversity Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-siecle Culture Resource Type: Book Published: 1987 Miss Representation Resource Type: Film Published: 2011 Explores the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America, and challenges the media's limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman. Sexy Baby Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2012 Sexy Baby is the first documentary film to put faces to a seismic cultural shift: the cyber age is creating a new sexual landscape.

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