The Beauty Myth
THE BEAUTY MYTH by Cherry Hitkari, Harshita Kumari “It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality” Virginia Woolf Women’s bodies, since time immemorial has been treated as site of contestation, control and oppression. It is in this regard of continuation of the cycle of male social dominance, one finds feminine beauty as a currency system which is both embodied and commodified. Simply put, the Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf represents the institutional pressures on women to confirm to a beauty ideal that is largely unattainable and a modern form of oppression that undermines equality between sexes. Sadly, Beauty Myth not only is a production...