The Face of Love: Feminism and the Beauty Question

by Ellen Zetzel Lambert

Book Overview

"A wise and often poignant book about the connection between love and feelings of ugliness or beauty. . . . Lambert understands women's anxieties about beauty as serious, and shows . . . how meaningful they can be." --Elaine Showalter

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807065013
• ISBN13: 9780807065013
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

very helpful and relevant book for women

Ms. Lambert does a great job examining the beauty question in the post-feminist age, namely, what is the appropriate role of personal appearance in the life of women? She avoids oversimplification and pat answers, and takes relevant examples from classic and modern literature to corroborate her ideas. This book really helped me to think through an issue which I deal with on a daily basis but rarely discuss with anyone, and which is tied to most women's fundamental sense of self-esteem and happiness.