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Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England: A Feminist Literary History
Edith Snook
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Description for Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England: A Feminist Literary History
Paperback. 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, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 312.
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
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137503688
SKU
V9781137503688
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: A Feminist Literary History
A masterful, eloquent, and convincing interpretation of the early modern culture of beauty which has vast implications for myriad areas of critical and historical interest beyond this topic alone. Patricia Phillippy, Kingston University, UK Snook's careful and lucid account of early modern women and their beauty practices, and how they variously ... Read more