Beauty Secrets

Women and the Politics of Appearance

Author: Wendy Chapkis
ISBN: 0896082792

"Beauty Secrets" explores the links between appearance, gender and sexuality; it empowers women to share the secrets of their relationship to imposed standards of beauty showing how women are constantly required to 'pass' by wrapping their 'unacceptable' and 'undisguised' selves in layers of conformity to acceptable beauty standards. -- back cover.

Publisher: South End Press
Publish Date: 1986

Subjects: Health & Fitness / Beauty & Grooming, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Body image)