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• the beauty myth: how images of beauty are used against women, by naomi wolf
• Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression, by sandra lee bartky
• foucault, femininity and the modernization of patriarchal power
• Race, beauty, and the tangled knot of a guilty pleasure, Maxine Leeds Craig
• Objectification Theory: Toward Understanding Women's Lived Experiences and Mental Health Risks , Barbara L. Fredrickson
• beauty work: individual and institutional rewards, the reproduction of gender, and questions of agency , samantha kwan and mary nell trautner
• Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Susan Bordo
• Wounded Beauty: An Exploratory Essay on Race, Feminism, and the Aesthetic Question , Ann Anlin Cheng
• Selling Feminism, Consuming Femininity, Amanda M. Gengler
• Choosing to conform: The discursive complexities of choice in relation to feminine beauty practices , Avelie Stuart and Ngaire Donaghue
• Globalization and Beauty: A Historical and Firm Perspective , Geoffrey Jones

Video:

• Sexy Inc.; Our Children Under Influence (30 min documentary)
• The Sexy Lie (10. min ted talk)
• Miss Representation , full length doc. available on netflix