Naomi Wolf sets herself a very ambitious project: a cultural analysis of beauty. Unfortunately she falls at the first fence, since her book contains glaring factual errors and omissions. The kind of laziness that has caused her to rely on dubious research also pervades her lengthy analyses, which amount to little more than unsubstantiated diatribe.Overall I'd say that this book deals with a complicated subject, and unfortunately its author was not prepared to put in the scholarly effort that the topic required. You'd be far better off with a more conventional sociological approach to the problem of self-image by Barthes or perhaps Adorno.