"Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it."

"To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all da…"

"The books and films they see survey from the young boy's point of view his first touch of a girl's thighs, his first …"

"For the first time in history, children are growing up whose earliest sexual imprinting derives not from a living hum…"

"What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her 'beauty' his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has…"

"A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience…"

"The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her 'beauty.' Her reproductive value, as the 'aes…"

"Health makes good propaganda. “'Proof' that women's activities outside the home are detrimental to the health and wel…"

"Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hy…"

"The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance."