I was reading the theme for Feminist Friday XVI this week and The Transatlantic Blonde mentioned " The Beauty Myth " - a ground-breaking feminist work by Naomi Wolf which examines the theory that "beauty" is a patriarchal social construction. She (Ms Wolf) considers that even with all the power and money that women have in the modern world we are much worse off than our grandmothers because of the modern-day (unobtainable) image of "beauty".
... blogging my guts out