The Desire to be the Perfect Women by Verenice Murillo

The vast majority of American women, around thirty-three thousand, admitted to researchers that instead achieving any other goal, they would preferably lose ten to fifteen pounds. In the nonfiction book The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women (2002) by Naomi Wolf illustrates all the challenges women in society go through such as in, work, media, and in the religious sphere. She provides many statistics and anecdotes from several different people to support her ideas. Wolf suggests that women can reevaluate themselves and not live up to men’s institutions. Overall, Wolf gets all her ideas and points across in this book, which is why I give this book a rating of three stars out of five. I would most definitely recommend this to both women and men, mainly women with low self-esteem because it can motivate them to think more highly of themselves. I would recommend this book to men only for the mere reason that their mindset should not be antifeminist.