Beauty, virtue, power, and success in Venezuela 1850-2015 / Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nichols, Elizabeth Gackstetter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--Venezuela--History.

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics).

Women--Venezuela--Social conditions.

Women.

Women--Venezuela--Identity.

Sex role--Venezuela--History.

Sex role.

History.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Social conditions.

Venezuela--Social conditions.

Venezuela.

Women--Identity.

Women--Social conditions.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 221 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]

Summary:

Beauty, Virtue, Power, and Success in Venezuela 1850-2015 examines the societal duty of Venezuelan women to display and perform their inner virtue and worth through careful management of their outer physical appearance in four historical moments: 1850-1890, 1910-1950, 1960-1990, and 2000-2015. Since the mid 1800s, Venezuelan women-and, more specifically, their bodies-have served as physical symbols of homeland, honor, and morality. Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols contextualizes her study socially and historically by examining the impact of cultural phenomena like nineteenth-century eugenics, scientific motherhood, popular and elite literature, film, beauty pageants, and plastic surgery. This book tells the story of how Venezuelan women have learned to exercise and perform to societal expectations of beauty. Recommended for scholars of Latin American studies, women's studies, gender studies, sociology, and history. Book jacket.

Contents:

Productive heterosexuality and feminine beauty in the nineteenth century

Mercedes Mutis de Ibarra: the powerlessness of old age

Ana Teresa Ibarra de Guzmán: the (irate) caged bird

The ideal mother: decent girls with good hair in the early twentieth century

Teresa de la Parra: the arduous duty to appear beautiful

Antonia Palacios: learning to be decente

Modern beauty pageants and contests: individual and collective identity

Blonde and wealthy: strategic beauty

Stefania Mosca, Belén Valarino, and Lidia Rebrij: cosmo girls

100% chic: dressing well to guarantee success in the twenty-first century

"Exotic" and poor: practical beauty

Plastic surgery: beauty and consumption in twenty-first century Venezuela.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Nichols, Elizabeth Gackstetter, author. Beauty, virtue, power, and success in Venezuela 1850-2015

ISBN:

9781498523646

1498523641

OCLC:

949986922