Face Value: The Politics of Beauty (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Lakoff, Robin; Scherr, Raquel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032381663 ISBN 13: 9781032381664

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

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.

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Robin Tolmach Lakoff and Raquel L. Scherr

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032381663
• ISBN 13: 9781032381664
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 350