Face Value - Robin Lakoff, Raquel Scherr

Face Value

The Politics of Beauty
Buch | Softcover
350 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-38166-4 (ISBN)
37,40 inkl. MwSt
First published in 1984, Face Value confronts the pervasive power of beauty through art and literature, as well as interviews with men and women with varying perspectives on the subject. The topics covered range widely: the history of beauty from the Greeks to the present; the pathology of beauty: how women have been willing to harm themselves, mentally and physically, to achieve ‘beauty’; the language we use to speak of beauty, and its implications; our attitudes towards beauty, as examined by psychologists; beauty and ethnic identity; men and beauty. The authors present in fact a redefinition of beauty, enabling both women and men to enjoy it in themselves and in others, while discarding the sex-role stereotypes that have governed the definition of beauty in the past. With a new preface that explores the gaps created by time in the book’s discourse, this book will be of interest to students of linguistics, gender studies, women’s studies, cultural studies, sociology and anthropology.

Robin Tolmach Lakoff and Raquel L. Scherr

New Preface Preface Acknowledgements 1. Why This Book? 2. The Problem of Beauty: Myth and Reality 3. The Representation of Venus: An Ideal in Search of a Definition 4. Beauty in Our Time 5. Attitudes Toward Beauty 6. The Pathology of Beauty 7. Talking About Beauty 8. Men and Beauty 9. Beauty and Ethnicity 10. Some Final Thoughts Notes Bibliography Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.11.2024
Reihe/Serie Routledge Revivals
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-032-38166-3 / 1032381663
ISBN-13 978-1-032-38166-4 / 9781032381664
Zustand Neuware
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