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Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England

A Feminist Literary History
By:Edith Snook
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230282858
eText ISBN:9780230302235
Edition:0
Copyright:2011
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.