![]() You can follow us on Instagram: or join our closed Facebook group, After Work Drinks Podcast. Just a heads-up that Naomi briefly discusses the topic of sexual assault, so if you want to skip over that part of the conversation, it lasts for two minutes from the 20 minute mark. She is also the author of eight best-selling books, including her latest - Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love, which tracks the life of an unsung hero of the 19th century gay rights movement, John Addington Symonds. Since releasing The Beauty Myth as a 26-year-old Oxford grad, Naomi has become a celebrated cultural and political commentator, writing for The Guardian, The New Republic and The Huffington Post. However, rather than focusing solely on her earlier blockbusters, The Beauty. This version was roundly criticized in academia for being apolitical, individualistic. We talk to Naomi about the ways beauty standards continue to oppress women, how women are pressured to be compliant and likeable (and how this turns into a kind of mass social grooming), how to figure out what you genuinely like versus what the patriarchy teaches teaches you to like, how to spot genuine male allies and how she’s reframing The Beauty Myth in an era of social media and internet porn. This chapter examines the most well-known third wave feminist, Naomi Wolf. Since Naomi Wolf’s books The Beauty Myth and Fire With Fire had become identified in the media as the most visible representative of third-wave feminism, the term third wave became synonymous with a new version of liberal feminism (Wolf, 1991, 1994). This year is the 30th anniversary of her seminal book, The Beauty Myth - a book which changed both our lives (and which you would’ve heard us and AWD fave Florence Given reference many times before). This week we are sooooo thrilled to be speaking to the iconic feminist author Naomi Wolf.
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