Summary Of A Woman's Beauty Put Down Or Power Source By Susan Sontag

As Humanity Changes Beauty Changes
In her essay “A Woman's Beauty: Put Down or Power Source” Susan Sontag, a women’s right activist, explains general ideals and observations towards societal pressures on women’s beauty in contrast to men’s beauty. Although she presents historical and current positions on the subject, she generalizes humanity’s views and lacks in acknowledging that society’s perceptions evolve over time.
Sontag makes a broad statement that everyone, meaning both men and women, agree to the popular perception that beauty for women, is based only on their physical body parts. While handsome being the perception of men, is more than visual focusing mostly by their character. (Sontag, 644-655) With such a general argument Sontag fails to inform the reader that beauty evolves over time. Wendy Lewis explains in her article “Medicine & Health” that the concept of beauty today is no longer searching for flawlessness but feeling healthy and being proud of one’s age (2009). The basics of Sontag’s argument were based entirely on the perception at the time the essay was written. Even though she includes historical background, and indirectly states that the concept of beauty did changed from pre-modernism to post-modernism. She failed

And being a rights activist herself, involving perhaps her personal experiences and emotions. Including this in her essay also, omits that women are not encourage to pursue education and economical status; instead focusing only on looks. Lewis adds in her article that the new view of beauty is about lifestyles (2009) In contrast to Sontag’s believes in beauty being a job, Lewis describes the modern term of beauty as an overall healthy life