The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women (Wolf 1991) noted the sharp contrasts in the style of men versus women’s dress, suggesting is the last belief system keeping male dominance in tact. The paper also proposes that ‘beauty’ is not universal or changeless, which is the concept I have based my creative upon.
The Economic Reality of The Beauty Myth (Averett & Korenman 1993) investigates the labour market’s discrimination against obese women and expose social and psychological pressures contributing to the gender eating disorders.
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (Bordo 2003) argues anorexia nervosa and bulimia are manifestations of anxieties, and how beauty has kept women at war with their bodies.
Averett, S & Korenman, S 1993, ‘The Economic Reality of the Beauty Myth‘, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/46552735_The_Economic_Reality_of_The_Beauty_Myth . [22 April 2019].
Bordo, S 2003, ‘Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body‘, University of California Press, Berkeley. Available from: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520240544/unbearable-weight . [23 April 2019].
Wolf, N 1991, ‘The beauty myth: how images of beauty are used against women‘ , 1st ed. edn, W. Morrow, New York.
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