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Beauty and women...in society..the beauty myth

Date Submitted: 10/15/2001 07:35:28
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 4 pages (963 words)
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Beauty And Women The rights and status of women have improved considerably in the last fifty years. Women gained legal rights, reproductive rights, pursued higher education, entered the military, and the sports arena by overturning the ancient and social beliefs about the women's social role. But there is something still killing them softly, the beauty myth, which implies that women 's greatest goal in life is to look beautiful. Women are all too often described …

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