1. Fashion
In the developed world the preoccupation with the body and with beauty is intensifying, and the beauty industry, despite nearly thirty years of feminism, is a multi-billion dollar year industry. ... According to Naomi Wolf, author of the book, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women, "the diet industry has tripled its income in the past ten years from a $10 billion industry to a $33.3 billion industry. ... From the early 1930's to the 1950's the film industry began to play a leading role in portraying the ideal woman and so defining women's fashion. .....
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