Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West

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Review: This is without doubt the most sophisticated, well-researched, and compelling book ever written about the ways the ‘beauty’ industry produces and reproduces misogyny. Written from an unapologetically radical feminist perspective, students describe Beauty and Misogyny as transformative and life-changing.- Gail Dines, Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies, Wheelock College, Boston, USA Praise for the first edition Beauty and Misogyny belongs in women’s studies and public health classes and on the shelves of academics, clinicians, and parents of daughters. It would benefit any woman who was considering plastic surgery or buying a new tube of lipstick. – Michele Hoffnung, Quinnipiac University, USA in PsycCRITIQUES Jeffreys’ mission is to shift women out of their collective complacency. The book’s central theme is an exploration of the use of sexuality by men to dominate women. Jeffreys offers no comfort zone for her readers. Unlike some feminist theorists, she refuses to couch her arguments in inaccessible, academic language, or to accept that feminism has achieved its aims. – Julie Bindel, The Guardian