The Beauty Myth
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The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women is a nonfiction book by Naomi Wolf, originally published in 1990 by Chatto & Windus in the UK and William Morrow & Co in the United States.
Cover of the first edition
Camille Paglia
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Camille Anna Paglia is an American academic, social critic and feminist. Paglia was a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1984 until the university's closure in
The Beauty Myth
…real statistic." Schoemaker calculated that there are about 525 annual deaths from anorexia, 286 times less than Wolf's statistic. Humanities scholar Camille Paglia also criticized the book, arguing that Wolf's historical research and analysis was flawed. Within women's studies, scholars posit that the Beauty Myth…
Paglia in 2017