Our Looks, Our Lives: Sex, Beauty, Power, and the Need to Be Seen
Our Looks, Our Lives: Sex, Beauty, Power, and the Need to Be Seen
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Publisher: HarperTorch
Publication year: 1999
ISBN: 0061097942
Description:

The internationally bestselling author of "My Mother, My Self" and "My Secret Garden" and renowned champion of women returns with an illuminating and empowering examination of how looks shape our lives. Friday probes the power, allure, and mystique of beauty, including fashion, fear of competition, shoes and sex, adolescent pain, envy, the double standard of aging, fairy tales, feminism, love, and more. Part memoir, part history, this book changes the way we all look in the mirror.