There is no legitimate historical or biological justification for the beauty myth; what it is doing to women today is a result of nothing more exalted than the need of today’s power structure, economy...
The sexual revolutionaries of the 1960s, including advocates for 'adult' material such as Hugh Hefner and Al Goldstein, represented porn to us as a great social radicalizer. But a nation of masturbati...
The Western sexual revolution sucks. It has not worked well enough for women.
Quando a romancista Margaret Atwood perguntou a mulheres o que elas mais temiam dos homens, elas responderam que tinham medo que eles as matassem. Quando fez a mesma pergunta aos homens com relação às...
Poststructuralism. . . . is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language is internally contradictory and has no fixed meaning.
Only then will women be able to talk about what beauty really involves: the attention of people we do not know, rewards for things we did not earn, sex from men who reach for us as for a brass ring on...
Many of the signals that either stoke or diminish female desire have to do with the female brain's question: Is it safe here?
It is all impersonal; it is political.
For any one woman to outgrow the myth, she needs the support of many women. The toughest but most necessary change will come not from men or from the media, but from women, in the way we see and behav...
The central rule of the myth: For every feminist action there is an equal and opposite beauty myth reaction.
Women’s writing is full ... of heartbreak with the injustices done by beauty—its presence as well as its absence.
When a woman looks at a man, she can physically dislike the idea of his height, his coloring, his shape. But after she has liked him and loved him, she would not want him to look any other way: For ma...
We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained bodies; the skills they attain through their own concentration and r...
The vulva, clitoris, and vagina are actually best understood as the surface of an ocean that is shot through with vibrant networks of underwater lightning—intricate and fragile, individually varied ne...
Os homens são estimulados visualmente pelo corpo feminino e são menos impressionáveis pela personalidade da mulher porque desde cedo são treinados para reagir assim, enquanto as mulheres são menos est...
Images of strangled women, women in cages do not push any limits; they are a mainstream cliche of a mainstream social order. Rock music fails to live up to its subversive tradition when it eroticizes...
From the early 1930s, professional purges led so many Jewish and communist academics and scientists to emigrate that this led to a major brain drain. By 1933, about 2,000 of the nation’s premier artis...
Anorexics are sure they are embarked on a quest that no one else can understand by looking at them. Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women.
I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes economic pressure and even legal judgments regarding...
Something important is indeed at stake that has to do with the relationship between female liberation and female beauty.