The Women's Table: The History of Beauty Culture, the Beauty Myth, special guest: Heather Stark
We have created a culture that tells women the most important thing they can be is beautiful. Then we pummel them with a standard of beauty they will never meet. After that, when they worry about beauty, we call them superficial. Or even worse, we dismiss their concerns altogether by saying 'everyone is beautiful in their own way', and admonishing them to accept themselves the way they are. In this episode Heather Stark and I will be talking about the history of beauty culture, the beauty myth. Why is it that women are so obsessed with their looks, with their appearances or is it society that…
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