Feminism

Feminism from Lesley Sullivan

A father and son have a car accident and are both badly hurt. They are both taken to separate hospitals. When the boy is taken in for an operation, the surgeon (doctor) says 'I can not do the surgery because this is my son'. How is this possible?

Evolution of Beauty - Dove Campaign for Real Beauty

Feminism from Malik Faisal

What is feminism?

Third Wave Feminism (in the media)

Naomi Wolf THe Beauty Myth - 3rd Wave Feminsim

'No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.' 

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

Naomi Wolf quotes from her book The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women 1991

Feminists criticise lifestyle magazines

  “ Every woman knows that regardless of her achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful… the UK beauty industry takes £8.9 billion a year out of women’s pockets. Magazines financed by the beauty industry teach little girls that they need make-up and train them to use it, so establishing their lifelong reliance on beauty products” (Germaine Greer 1999)‏