Just over 30 years ago, she published the text that launched her to fame in the first place, The Beauty Myth. This has all been unsettling to watch because Wolf’s work once transformed me. The first time she went on Alex Jones’ show (but not the last) was in 2008. Just this week, she shared a 1944 photo of a Jewish couple in the Budapest ghetto wearing stars on their jackets, with the caption “Biden: ‘Show me your papers.’ ” There were many pre-COVID portents of Wolf’s conspiracy turn: In 2019, she was sharing suspicions that oddly shaped clouds were manufactured, and getting corrected on live radio for disastrously misunderstanding historical documents on which she hung the thesis of an entire book. She went on Tucker Carlson in February-not long after an actual coup attempt-to warn that the United States was “moving into a coup situation” because of COVID restrictions. The bestselling author spent the pandemic doing things like celebrating indoor restaurant meals and declaring that children are losing the reflex to smile because of masks (when asked for evidence, she stated: “The children I see around me is the citation”). With pertinent and intelligent examples, she confronts the beauty industry and its advertising and uncovers the reasons why women are consumed by this destructive obsession.'Essential reading' Guardian 'A smart, angry, insightful book, and a clarion call to freedom.First, it must be said: Naomi Wolf is a COVID truther. In this iconic, gripping and frank expose, Naomi Wolf exposes the tyranny of the beauty myth through the ages and its oppressive function today, in the home and at work, in literature and the media, in relationships between men and women, between women and women. In a society embroiled in a cult of female beauty and youthfulness, pressure on women to conform physically is constant and all-pervading. Every day, women around the world are confronted with a dilemma - how to look. The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity. Provocative, punchy and important, this is one of the essential classics of modern feminist literature.
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