In today's world, women have more power, legal and reproductive rights, and opportunities for professional growth than ever before. But despite the obvious progress, journalist Naomi Wolfe draws attention to another, much more insidious mechanism of social control. Through eating disorders, the cult of thinness, the fear of aging, and the diet, cosmetic, and surgical industries, modern women find themselves in an endless quest to meet an impossible ideal of "flawless beauty." The more rights and power women gain, the stricter the demands on their bodies. The closer they are to success, the harsher the punishment for "imperfections." And the stronger they become on the outside, the weaker they must feel on the inside. That's why the next stage of the feminist movement depends more than ever on what they choose to see when they look in the mirror.
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