7/1/2023 0 Comments The beautiful myth![]() ![]() Vanessa Loder is an inspirational keynote speaker and sought-after expert on women’s leadership, mindfulness, stress management and sustainable success. Despite its author’s recent controversies, The Beauty Myth remains an important, thoughtful work of feminist theory. Since 2014, Wolf has championed many controversial political and scientific theories. After Wolf published The Beauty Myth, she had a career in politics, brainstorming ways to reach female voters for presidential candidates Bill Clinton and later, Al Gore, and later, Wolf returned to Oxford to finish her PhD in English literature in 2015. ![]() I wanted to write feminist theory, and I kept being told by the dons there was no such thing.” The project she was working on formed the basis of the book, The Beauty Myth. ![]() Wolf later talked about that by saying: “My subject didn’t exist. Apparently a professor at Oxford assessed her writing as personal and subjective, and advised her against submitting her doctoral thesis. Her initial period at Oxford University was difficult for her as she experienced what she called “raw sexism, overt snobbery and casual antisemitism”. From 1985 to 1987, she was a Rhodes Scholar at New College, Oxford. She attended Yale University, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in English literature in 1984. Naomi Wolf was born in 1962 in San Francisco, California, to a Jewish family. ![]()
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