Eating people is right
Paul Delany, 21 February 1985
Face Value: The Politics of Beauty
by Robin TolmachLakoff and Raquel Scherr.
Routledge, 312 pp., £12.95, November 1984,0 7100 9742 5 Show More
by Robin TolmachLakoff and Raquel Scherr.
Routledge, 312 pp., £12.95, November 1984,
“... long cry of outrage against what York so relishes – the fashionable world of style and surface. Lakoff and Scherr’s chapter on ‘The Pathology of Beauty’ deals with breast implants and anorexia, but the title would suit their whole book. Beauty, they complain, ‘is the only means by which women reach power and influence’. It is ... ”
