Frases de Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf
Fecha de nacimiento: 12. Noviembre 1962
Naomi Wolf es una escritora estadounidense y consultora política. Con la publicación de su obra El mito de la belleza se convirtió en una de las principales representantes de la que sería conocida como la tercera ola del feminismo.[1]
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„What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.“
— Naomi Wolf
Context: The books and films they see survey from the young boy's point of view his first touch of a girl's thighs, his first glimpse of her breasts. The girls sit listening, absorbing, their familiar breasts estranged as if they were not part of their bodies, their thighs crossed self-consciously, learning how to leave their bodies and watch them from the outside. Since their bodies are seen from the point of view of strangeness and desire, it is no wonder that what should be familiar, felt to be whole, becomes estranged and divided into parts. What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired. Girls learn to watch their sex along with the boys; that takes up the space that should be devoted to finding out about what they are wanting, and reading and writing about it, seeking it and getting it.
Chapter 5 : 'Sex', p. 157
„A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Women's dieting has become what Yale psychologist Judith Rodin calls a 'normative obsession,' a never-ending passion play given international coverage out of all proportion to the health risks associated with obesity, and using emotive language that does not figure even in discussions of alcohol or tobacco abuse. […] Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.“
— Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Chapter 6 : 'Hunger', p. 187
„Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.“
— Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Chapter 2 : 'Work', p.45
„The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance.“
— Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Chapter 1 : 'The Beauty Myth', p. 14
„The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her 'beauty.' Her reproductive value, as the 'aesthetic' value of her face and body today, 'came to be seen as a sacred trust, one that she must constantly guard in the interest of her race.“
— Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Chapter 7 : 'Violence', p. 222
