Naomi Wolf

American author and feminist intellectual best known for The Beauty Myth (1990), a landmark feminist critique of beauty standards. In later years became controversial for heterodox positions on COVID policy, vaccine mandates, and civil liberties, moving away from mainstream progressive positions.

The Beauty Myth provided a rigorous cultural-political analysis of how beauty norms function as a form of social control over women. Her later work represents a pivot toward civil libertarian anti-establishment critique.