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Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England
Edith Snook
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Description for Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; HBLH; JFCD; JFCK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230282858
SKU
V9780230282858
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Edith Snook
EDITH SNOOK Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. She is the author of Women, Reading and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England (2005) and has contributed a chapter to the Palgrave volume The History of Women's Writing 1500-1610.
Reviews for Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England
“Women, Beauty and Power: A Feminist Literary History is a significant and valuable intervention in the ongoing discussion of the construction and interpretation of female beauty in the early modern period. … It is an important book.” (Heather Campbell, Renaissance and Reformation, Vol. 42 (3), 2019) "A masterful, eloquent, and convincing interpretation of the early modern culture of beauty ... Read more