Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal

by Heather Widdows

Book Overview

How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today's world

The demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to which we judge ourselves good or bad, a success or a failure. Perfect Me explores the changing nature of the beauty ideal, showing how it is more dominant, more demanding, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691160074
• ISBN13: 9780691160078
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.3"