The Beauty Myth, By Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf had written her book “The Beauty Myth in 1991. The book was written has a feminist platform to inform the world that there are laws and policies made up by the government had been given to women as somewhat of a cover up to the more harsher of women rights laws. Women at the time had rights but they weren’t as powerfully enacted until later years as women’s rights began to progress in change. It also inspects the repercussion against the feminist movement and the way in which old ideas about beauty are used as a political weapon against women's in their claim for equality.
Wolf explains how she wrote the book as means of a particular system in which a women’s worthiness isn’t measure by how beautiful she might look. But the
Considering that cosmetic surgery was first invented in the twentieth century leaving a new way for women to enhance their looks. Wolf also makes the argument that throughout time women’s power and the amount of equality that they hold has grown. The rights that they have had has changed and improved. Women’s job positions in the workplace and independence alongside how they feel about their appearance (referring to their beauty) has changed. Wolf published the book at a time where women’s success was slowly but progressively changing in the exploration of equal rights and positions of employment. We live in a society where everyone is obsessed with looks and yet the very women who are worried about their own appearance shield the lengths they are willing and prepared to go so that they can alternate how they actually look. People only get the surgery to look better to other people not really for self-fulfillment for the most part. Within what every society women need to be appreciated regardless of how old they happen to be. Society’s also have to stop putting down women and discriminating against them because of how they look. Pressuring women like that only leads them to the opportunity of getting cosmetic surgery. The appeal of cosmetic surgery was quickly popularized by the emphasis on how young and good you should look. Wolf emphasizes in her book states that there is no historical justification about “The Beauty Myth”. She says that this is a new developing concept. Wolf goes on and says that “The Beauty Myth” is just today’s way of defense against women and what they can be. Women gained power outside the home as a result of the second-wave feminism that came about which allowed women to enter the workplace and be a lot more active in