Our Looks/Our Lives: Sex Beauty Power and the Need to Be Seen

About this book

Do You Like What You See In The Mirror? We all want to have it. Beauty. Today more than ever our physical appearance determines how we judge ourselves and are judged by others. Like it or not we live in the age of the Empty Package when how we look takes precedence over such enduring qualities as integrity kindness and honesty. Now in this provacative entertaining book the acclaimed author of the international bestseller My Mother/My Self reveals the truth about how looks affect our lives and how life affects our looks. In this thoroughly honest and upbeat book Nancy Friday probes the power allure and mystique of beauty including: fashion fear of competition shoes and sex adolescent pain envy the double standard of aging fairy tales feminism love and more. Part memoir part history Our Looks Our Lives will forever change the way we all look in the mirror.