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Freedman, Rita Jackaway Beauty Bound: Why We Pursue the Myth in the Mirror
Lexington Books 1986 0669111414 / 9780669111415 Hard Cover Very Good + Near-Fine
Very-good+, clean copy. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $16.95. Tight spine - Bright pages. 269 pages. NO tears inside book. 42 pages have light writing/underlining. Does NOT interfere with reading. Illustrated with photos. - From The Critics Publishers Weekly Most women take for granted that part of being female is looking the part, seldom questioning the social conditioning and sexist role-modeling this bespeaks. The props and paint, the shaping up, the obsession with youth are, the author writes, part of a social myth of female beauty which serves to keep women in their place as ``the fair sex,'' powerless, weak and properly submissive. Stiletto heels, incessant dieting and elaborate cosmetic rituals are no different from such cultural keep-her-in-her-place dictums as Chinese foot-binding or veiling the female form in Arab countries, observes Freedman, a New York psychologist. Designed to appeal to men's, not women's, taste, the prescriptions for female beauty mean that most women ``put on their face'' in the morning, dislike some part of their bodies, perhaps even resort to cosmetic surgery. Freedman discusses her subject in a low-key, convincing way that provides excellent historical background on the ways concepts of beauty have shaped women's sense of self.
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