The beauty myth : how images of beauty are used against women
Mentions in Episodes:
- Episode: The Makings of a Leader | The Honourable Tony Abbott | EP 393
Podcast: The Jordan B. Peterson PodcastShe wrote 'The Beauty Myth' and has been a pretty powerful voice on the left, promoting the narrative of patriarchal oppression. I mean, that's a narrative she buys.
- Episode: The Marxist Slide from Liberalism | Naomi Wolf | EP 351
Podcast: The Jordan B. Peterson PodcastHer first book, 'The Beauty Myth,' challenged notions of attraction, arguing that they are societally fabricated.
- Episode: The Marxist Slide from Liberalism | Naomi Wolf | EP 351
Podcast: The Jordan B. Peterson PodcastWhen I read The Beauty Myth, which was a long time ago by the way because it was published in 93, I was curious about what you made of the biological markers of beauty and how you think that plays into what you described as the Iron Maiden straitjacket placed on women in terms of the ideal of their sexual self-presentation mission.
- Episode: The Marxist Slide from Liberalism | Naomi Wolf | EP 351
Podcast: The Jordan B. Peterson PodcastBut I will say that now I think that young men, for instance, like a whole phenomenon that I find fascinating—I might find it fascinating as an older woman who's married to a much younger man—but I find it fascinating that when I was writing The Beauty Myth, older women were considered done reproductively or sexually, and now that’s no longer the case.