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This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2014.
Crafting Allure: Beauty, Culture and Identity explores the complexity of physical beauty, the kind we can see in human beings, their representations, and in nature. From the self-presentations of eighteenth-century English ladies, to that of Civil Rights era African-American protestors, Afro-French women, and contemporary Asian-Indians; to the meanings of mannequins, retail beauty work, eating disorders, and hair; to a reconsideration of naturalised beauty in architecture, the embodiment of truth as a beautiful women, and what the appearance of Amerindians symbolised for Europeans of the Age of Exploration, culture and identity thread their way through the book. Written by scholars from a range of disciplines that reflect the book’s diversity as well as the complexity of visual beauty itself, Crafting Allure consists of eleven chapters divided into four parts: Fashioning Beauty Cultures, Beauty Workers, Racialising Beauty, and Beauty in Architecture and Allegory
Crafting Allure: Beauty, Culture and Identity explores the complexity of physical beauty, the kind we can see in human beings, their representations, and in nature. From the self-presentations of eighteenth-century English ladies, to that of Civil Rights era African-American protestors, Afro-French women, and contemporary Asian-Indians; to the meanings of mannequins, retail beauty work, eating disorders, and hair; to a reconsideration of naturalised beauty in architecture, the embodiment of truth as a beautiful women, and what the appearance of Amerindians symbolised for Europeans of the Age of Exploration, culture and identity thread their way through the book. Written by scholars from a range of disciplines that reflect the book’s diversity as well as the complexity of visual beauty itself, Crafting Allure consists of eleven chapters divided into four parts: Fashioning Beauty Cultures, Beauty Workers, Racialising Beauty, and Beauty in Architecture and Allegory
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2014.
Crafting Allure: Beauty, Culture and Identity explores the complexity of physical beauty, the kind we can see in human beings, their representations, and in nature. From the self-presentations of eighteenth-century English ladi...
About the author
Jacque Lynn Foltyn, PhD, Professor of Sociology, National University, La Jolla, CA, is editor of Catwalk: The Journal of Fashion, Beauty and Style and Fashions: Exploring Fashion through Cultures. Her critiques have appeared in The New York Times, Allure, and More, and she has appeared on CBS 48 Hours and the BBC.
Jacque Lynn Foltyn, PhD, Professor of Sociology, National University, La Jolla, CA, is editor of Catwalk: The Journal of Fashion, Beauty and Style and Fashions: Exploring Fashion through Cultures. Her critiques have appeared in The New York Times, Allure, and More, and she has appeared on CBS 48 ...
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