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

by Edith Snook

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137503688
• ISBN13: 9781137503688
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"