The beauty myth author5/30/2023 ![]() Often it gets lost in a time-warp all its own, an age when Betty Friedan was more influential than Jane Fonda.īut Ms. ![]() Naomi Wolf's slick, provocative book, "The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women" (William Morrow & Company) is very much like that fraught feminist scene embedded in the silly movie "The Final Countdown." One of several current books that are staking out the next wave of feminist thought, this sloppily researched polemic against the tyranny of beauty may seem as dismissible as a hackneyed adventure film. "If the way I look helps me get in the door, then God help 'em when I get through." It was an utterly modern and dangerously honest statement, something 1980's feminists might have thought but never said. "Let me put it this way," she said, calmly acknowledging her beauty, her brains and her exasperation at living in a man's world. "I've spent a lot of time trying to hide the way I look, hoping to be recognized for my abilities," she confessed to a man from the future, who asked, "How's it going so far?" ![]() When the ship went spiraling from the 1980's back to 1941, there was the film's token woman, Katharine Ross as a senator's beautiful, brilliant speech writer. One of the most astute and troubling feminist observations I can recall leaped out of the least likely place: a movie about an aircraft carrier caught in a time warp. ![]()
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