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Full articleNaomi Rebekah Wolf (born November 12, 1962) is an American author, journalist, and political advisor recognized for her early contributions to third-wave feminism through works like The Beauty Myth (1991), which critiqued societal beauty standards as a mechanism of control over women, selling widely and influencing discussions on gender and media. Educated at Yale University and Oxford, where she earned a D.Phil., Wolf advised Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign and authored subsequent books including Fire with Fire (1993) on feminist strategies and The End of America (2007), warning of eroding civil liberties. In recent years, as CEO of DailyClout, she has focused on crowdsourced analysis of government documents, particularly War Room/DailyClout Pfizer Documents, scrutinizing COVID-19 vaccine safety data and related policies, which led to her 2021 suspension from Twitter for posts interpreted as violating rules against COVID-19 misinformation, such as claims linking vaccines to fertility risks based on interpreted studies. These positions have positioned her as a vocal skeptic of institutional narratives on public health mandates, drawing both support for emphasizing empirical review and criticism for amplifying unverified causal inferences.
In brief
Wolf wrote a debut that many women handed to one another. The argument was about magazines, scales, and power.
Later work drew sharper criticism for accuracy. The early book is still the one that put her on the shelf.
Photographs
Hero photograph: Wikimedia Commons
