| Author/Contributor(s): | Alaïs, Saskia |
| Publisher: | Beacon Press |
| Date: | 4/20/2027 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
In this explosive investigation, researcher and writer Saskia Alaïs exposes the hidden machinery of the beauty economy, detonating the old beauty myth and revealing what replaced it — a system where pretty privilege isn’t merely a form of currency: it’s power.
For many women, this means:
- Your salary hinges on your weight
- Your credibility in court hinges on whether you’re someone’s “type”
- Your marriage prospects hinge on your class – who’s for fun, who’s for forever
Beauty no longer merely sells; it governs. It decides who’s pretty enough to protect, hot enough to serve, and credible enough to lead.
Drawing on groundbreaking interviews with women across five continents – from strip dancers and working mothers to teenage girls, senators and billionaires – Bombshell shows how beauty has hardened into a caste system: a hierarchy policed not only by men but also by women, algorithms and institutions alike.
Blistering, confessional and impossible to ignore, Bombshell traces beauty’s evolution from suffragists to social media — revealing how it became the West’s most seductive form of control hiding in plain sight.