Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England A Feminist Literary History | EKB DL

Home BookWomen, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England A Feminist Literary History

Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England A Feminist Literary History

Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England A Feminist Literary History

Description

Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what ways skin, clothes and hair could be used to represent racial, class and gender identities, and to convey political, religious and philosophical ideals.

Keywords

Social ScienceAnthropologyCultural & SocialLiterary CriticismModernPoetryHistoryEuropeEuropeanSociologyRenaissance

2011Book

Author(s)Edith Snook

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK

ISBN9780230282858

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

Similar Books

The Face of Queenship Early Modern Representations of Elizabeth I

The Face of Queenship Early Modern Representations of Elizabeth I

Early Modern Women in Conversation

Early Modern Women in Conversation

Women during the English Reformations Renegotiating Gender and Religious Identity

Women during the English Reformations Renegotiating Gender and Religious Identity

Women and Material Culture, 1660-1830

Women and Material Culture, 1660-1830

Gender and Power in Shrew-Taming Narratives, 1500-1700

Gender and Power in Shrew-Taming Narratives, 1500-1700

Body Narratives Writing the Nation and Fashioning the Subject in Early Modern England

Body Narratives Writing the Nation and Fashioning the Subject in Early Modern England

Gender and Representations of the Female Subject in Early Modern England Creating Their Own Meanings

Gender and Representations of the Female Subject in Early Modern England Creating Their Own Meanings

Debating Gender in Early Modern England, 1500–1700

Debating Gender in Early Modern England, 1500–1700

Women, Work and Sociability in Early Modern London

Women, Work and Sociability in Early Modern London

The Emblematic Queen Extra-Literary Representations of Early Modern Queenship

The Emblematic Queen Extra-Literary Representations of Early Modern Queenship