Myth Tag

The renowned creator on how the Kardashians are demystifying beauty and the commodification of the male body In 1991, feminist scholar Naomi Wolf published The Beauty Myth, a giant and daring work of nonfiction that put to paper the oppressive beauty ideals of the day. It cleverly traced the links between patriarchy, the ideals peddled in contemporary promoting and pornography and increased pressures for ladies to get surgery alongside rising numbers of eating disorder diagnoses.  “Western economies are absolutely depending on the continued underpayment of girls,” she wrote within the introduction. “An ideology that makes women feel ‘price less’ was urgently needed to counteract the best way feminism had begun to make us feel...