Beauty Secrets: Women and the Politics of Appearance"Beauty Secrets" explores the links between appearance, gender and sexuality; it empowers women to share the secrets of their relationship to imposed standards of beauty showing how women are constantly required to 'pass' by wrapping their 'unacceptable' and 'undisguised' selves in layers of conformity to acceptable beauty standards. -- back cover. |
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Зміст
Secrets | 1 |
Dress As Success | 79 |
Ugly As | 119 |
Toward a More Colorful Revolution | 171 |
Afterword | 194 |
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| 211 | |
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Бібліографічна інформація
| Назва | Beauty Secrets: Women and the Politics of Appearance |
| Автор | Wendy Chapkis |
| Фотографії | Gon Buurman |
| Видання | ілюстроване |
| Видавець | South End Press, 1986 |
| ISBN | 0896082792, 9780896082793 |
| Обсяг | 214 стор. |
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