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Female beauty systems : beauty as social capital in western Europe and the United States, Middle Ages to the present / edited by Christine Adams and Tracy Adams. - 1 online resource (x, 259 pages .)

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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.


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ISBN: 1443881430 (electronic bk.) 9781443881432 (electronic bk.)

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
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.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Social capital (Sociology)
Women--Social conditions.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HQ1122 / .F46 2015

Dewey Class. No.: 305.42