Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England: A Feminist Literary History

Snook, Edith

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.

EAN

9781137503688

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Published

8 March 2011

Pages

230