An award-winning Northwestern University psychology professor reveals how the cultural obsession with women's appearance is an epidemic that harms women's ability to get ahead and to live happy, meaningful lives, in this powerful, eye-opening work in the vein of Naomi Wolf, Peggy Orenstein, and Sheryl Sandberg.
Today's young women face a bewildering set of contradictions when it comes to beauty. They don't want to be Barbie dolls but, like generations of women before them, are told they must look like them. They're angry about the media's treatment of women but hungrily consume the...
An award-winning Northwestern University psychology professor reveals how the cultural obsession with women's appearance is an epidemic that harms ...
La ciencia sugiere que la belleza siempre ha sido importante. Las mujeres de hoy fueron educadas con la creencia de que podian ser lo que quisieran. Sin embargo, aun sienten la necesidad de ser hermosas. Esta desesperacion por ser bellas no solo es una amenaza para la salud. Es un obstaculo en el camino que lleva a la igualdad entre los generos.
La ciencia sugiere que la belleza siempre ha sido importante. Las mujeres de hoy fueron educadas con la creencia de que podian ser lo que quisieran. S...
