4 options
Female beauty in art : history, feminism, women artists / edited by Maria Ioannou and Maria Kyriakidou ; contributors Adrienne Christiansen [and five others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics).
- Women--Identity.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Female Beauty in Art, a series of essays examine the presence and role of female beauty in art, history and culture, and consider the ways in which beauty can function as a discourse of female identity. As a concept, female beauty is unique in that it can contain compelling imbrications of gender ideologies, images, relations, cultural constructions and modes of interaction between persons and the institutions that define their lives. Thus, female beauty can provide proliferating methods t...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; CHAPTER ONE; PART I; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART II; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 7, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-7016-1
- OCLC:
- 893741082
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.