Look at My Ugly Face: Myths and Musings on Beauty and Other Perilous Obsessions with Women's AppearanceFor the readers who made a bestseller of Women Who Run with the Wolves, here is a book that explores the links between appearance, identity and power. Halprin shows how women can enter a complex and creative interplay between roles of beauty and ugliness--each with magical powers--that reaches far back to the triple Goddess. |
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