Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful cultural practices in the West by Sheila Jeffreys

Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful cultural practices in the West

Women and Psychology

Sheila Jeffreys

190 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction feminism sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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The new edition of Beauty and Misogyny revisits and updates Sheila Jeffreys' uncompromising critique of Western beauty practice and the industries and ideologies behind it. Jeffreys argues that beauty practices are not related to individual female...

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