Naomi Wolf
Goodreads Author
Born
in San Francisco, The United States
Genre
Member Since
October 2020
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/naomirwolf
The Beauty Myth
79 editions
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1990
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Vagina: A New Biography
38 editions
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2012
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The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
33 editions
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2007
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Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood
21 editions
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1999
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Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood
29 editions
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1997
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The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, COVID-19 and The War Against the Human
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Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries
18 editions
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2008
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Fire with Fire: New Female Power and How It Will Change the Twenty-First Century
16 editions
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1993
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Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith, and Resistance in a New Dark Age
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The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love, and See
17 editions
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2005
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“Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
“Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity initiated by beauty thinking. A woman who is self-conscious can't relax to let her sensuality come into play. If she is hungry she will be tense. If she is "done up" she will be on the alert for her reflection in his eyes. If she is ashamed of her body, its movement will be stilled. If she does not feel entitled to claim attention, she will not demand that airspace to shine in. If his field of vision has been boxed in by "beauty"--a box continually shrinking--he simply will not see her, his real love, standing right before him.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
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