Female beauty systems : beauty as social capital in western Europe and the United States, Middle Ages to the present /

Female beauty systems everywhere are complex, integrating markers of class, status, power, and sexuality to perform the fundamental function of sorting individuals into categories of "more" or "less" desirable. Heirs to the tradition of courtly love, modern western female beauty...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Adams, Tracy, 1959- (Editor ), Adams, Christine, 1962- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Temas:
Social capital (Sociology)
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Women > Social conditions.
Capital social (Sociologie)
Beauté féminine (Esthétique)
Femmes > Conditions sociales.
Social & cultural history.
Gender studies: women.
Feminism & feminist theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Women > Social conditions
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Female beauty systems everywhere are complex, integrating markers of class, status, power, and sexuality to perform the fundamental function of sorting individuals into categories of "more" or "less" desirable. Heirs to the tradition of courtly love, modern western female beauty systems tend to share the norm of man as pursuer, woman as pursued, having developed around the trope of the madly-desiring poet or knight supplicating his aloof and lovely lady for her favor. The apparent longevity of the courtly love tradition raises the question of whether the way in which it structures male desire
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 259 pages .)
ISBN:1443881430
9781443881432
Acceso:Legal Deposit;

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