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The Myth Surrounding Female Beauty

Research that I have undertaken for this project has led me to literature on Lacan’s mirror stage, the history of the mirror, feminist theories and issues surrounding female beauty. My visual work is focused around the female body and is intended to portray the idea of the self criticism women place upon themselves and their bodies. It also represents the way in which many women are not happy with their bodies in comparison to the perfect body society dictates they should aspire to possess. Therefore for this literary review I have decided to concentrate on The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf (1990) and The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir (1993).

In the first chapter of her book Wolf discusses the idea of a beauty myth that has been

created, surrounding women and explains its origin. She describes the beauty Myth as

being:
‘….a political weapon against women’s advancement’ (p2)
and suggests that this idea has been in......

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