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Women, beauty and power in early modern England : a feminist literary history
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Women, beauty and power in early modern England : a feminist literary history / Edith Snook.
ISBN
9780230282858 (hardback)
0230282857 (hardback)
Published
Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Physical Description
x, 230 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Summary
"Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what waysskin, clothes and hair could be used to represent racial, class and gender identities, and to convey political, religious and philosophical ideals"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 24, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note:
Introduction
PART ONE: COSMETICS
'The Beautifying Part of Physic': Women's Cosmetic Practices in Early Modern England
'Soveraigne Receipts,' Fair Beauty, and Race in Stuart England
PART TWO: CLOTHES
The Greatness in Good Clothes: Fashioning Subjectivity in Mary Wroth's Urania and Margaret Spencer's Account Book
What Not to Wear: Children's Clothes and the Maternal Advice of Elizabeth Jocelin and Brilliana, Lady Harley
PART THREE: HAIR
The Culture of the Head: Hair in Mary Wroth's Urania and Margaret Cavendish's 'Assaulted and Pursued Chastity'
An 'absolute mistress of her self': Anne Clifford and the Luxury of Hair
Conclusion
Index.
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