The Beauty Myth

Naomi Wolf (born 1962) is a journalist and an author. The Beauty Myth (1991) catapulted her fame, and she was considered one of the leaders of third-wave feminism in the United States. Wolf earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University. After this, she pursued graduate studies as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University.

Wolf worked as a political advisor for Bill Clinton during his 1996 presidential campaign. She also advised Al Gore during the 2000 election. Wolf wrote for publications such as The Nation, The Huffington Post, New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian as a journalist. She focused on a variety of feminist subjects, such as abortion.

Her other books include The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot (2007), Vagina: A New Biography (2012), and Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love (2020). Since 2020, Wolf has taken a public stance against the COVID-19 policies, arguing for bodily autonomy, and wrote a book, The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, Covid-19 and the War Against the Human (2022).

Her work has been praised by other key feminists such as Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem.