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Beauty and misogyny : harmful cultural practices in the West / Sheila Jeffreys.

by Jeffreys, Sheila.

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London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)

Human body -- Social aspects.

Women -- Social life and customs.

Women -- Health and hygiene.

Women in popular culture.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip058/2005004366.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0653/2005004366-d.html

0415351820 (pbk.)

9780415351829 (pbk.) :

0415351839 (hbk.)

9780415351836 (hbk.)

Women and psychology

viii, 206 p. ; 24 cm.

The 'grip of culture on the body': beauty practices as women's agency or women's subordination -- Harmful beauty practices and western culture -- Transfemininity: 'dressed' men reveal the naked reality of male power -- Pornochic: prostitution constructs beauty -- Fashion and misogyny -- Making up is hard to do -- Men's foot and shoe fetishism and the disabling of women -- Cutting up women: beauty practices as self-mutilation by proxy. conclusion: a culture of resistance.

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