Beauty secrets : women and the politics of appearance
| Full title: |
Beauty secrets : women and the politics of appearance / Wendy Chapkis ; photos, Gon Buurman. |
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| Main author: | Chapkis, W. |
| Format: | Book |
| 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. |
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| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Boston, MA :
South End Press,
c1986.
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| Classmark: |
A646.7 /501347 |
| Subjects: | |
| Bibliography: |
Bibliography: p. 205-209. |
| ISBN: |
0896082806 9780896082809 0896082792 (pbk.) 9780896082793 (pbk.) |