Perfect Me : Beauty as an Ethical Ideal /

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How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today's worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to which we judge ourselves good or bad, a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Widdows, Heather, 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Beauty, Personal > Psychological aspects.
Aesthetics.
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Beauty, Personal > Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Beauty Matters
  • A Duty to be Beautiful?
  • Life is one Long Catwalk
  • A New (Miss) World Order?
  • Routine, Special, and Extreme
  • Perfectly Normal
  • Hidden Costs and Guilty Pleasures
  • My Body, Myself
  • I will be Worth it!
  • I'm doing it for Me
  • More pain, who gains?
  • Conclusion: Beauty without the Beast
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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