How long does it take to read The Beauty Myth : How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women?
Naomi Wolf, Suzy Jackson
The Beauty Myth : How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf, Suzy Jackson takes about 6 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 23 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1990. 348 pages, about 95,700 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 59 minutes |
The page count is the median across 30 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of "the flawless beauty."
Subjects: Femininity (Psychology), Sex role, Feminine beauty (Aesthetics), Beauty culture, Femininity, Health and hygiene
