![]() In this book she writes from a Western perspective about how the concept of beauty influences people, mainly women. Naomi Wolf is a prominent spokeswoman for what is understood as the third-wave feminism being the author of a milestone of the feminists’ books, The Beauty Myth first published in 1991. Wolf co-founded the Board of the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership which aims to make young women good leaders teaching them development in the arts and media, politics and law, business and entrepreneurship as well as ethical decision making. She is the author of recognized international books such as The Beauty Myth, Promiscuities, Fire with Fire, Misconceptions and Vagina: A New Biography. Her essays have appeared in publications such as The New Republic, Wall Street Journal, Glamour, Ms., Esquire, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. She studied at Yale University where in 1985 she obtained the Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, being selected for The Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford afterwards (1985-1987). Naomi Wolf, born in San Francisco in 1962, is a liberal progressive feminist author and journalist. ![]() And once we break through and change the rules so our sense of our own beauty cannot be shaken, sing that beauty and dress it up and flaunt it and revel in it: In a sensual politics, female is beautiful.” (The Beauty Myth, p.291) Seek out the sex we want and fight fiercely against the sex we don’t want. ![]() Wear and touch and drink what we feel like.
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