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
Third-wave feminism
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Third-wave feminism is a feminist movement that began in the early 1990s; it was prominent in the decades prior to the fourth wave. Grounded in the civil-rights advances of the second wave, Gen X thir
The Beauty Myth
…a new surge of feminist consciousness." With the publication of The Beauty Myth, Wolf became a leading spokesperson of what was later described as the third wave of the feminist movement. In Who Stole Feminism? (1994) Christina Hoff Sommers criticized Wolf for publishing the claim that 150,000 women were dying every year from anorexia…
Rebecca Walker in 2003. The term third wave is credited to Walker's 1992 article "Becoming the Third Wave".
Anita Hill, 2014
Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of Bikini Kill, 1991
Jennifer Baumgardner, co-author of Manifesta (2000), in 2008