The aim of my project is to examine how impossible standards of beauty are being promoted as the ideal within society.
As a result, thousands of women are resorting to the use of cosmetic surgery to try and emulate this ideal.
Women have been banished to the sphere of Otherness, destined to achieve nothing and receive only that which men have been willing to grant.
Simone de Beauvoir argues that women should be liberated from abstract, restrictive essences, like ‘femininity’, which continue to cement women in their subordinate place.