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Beauty secrets : women and the politics of appearance

Author:W. Chapkis

Summary:"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

Print Book, English, 1986

Edition:View all formats and editions

Publisher: South End Press, Boston, MA, 1986

Physical Description:214 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

ISBN:

9780896082809, 9780896082793, 0896082806, 0896082792

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:14166624

Subjects:

Beauté féminine (Esthétique)

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)

Rôle selon le sexe

Additional Physical Form Entry:

Online version:

Beauty secrets.

Chapkis, W. (Wendy).

Contents:

Secrets

Changing landscapes

Skin Deep

Dress as success

Ugly as sin

Toward a more colorful revolution