Women, beauty and power in early modern England a feminist literary history
Title:
Women, beauty and power in early modern England a feminist literary history
Author:
Snook, Edith.
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Publication Information:
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Physical Description:
x, 230 p. : ill., ports.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- PART ONE: COSMETICS -- 'The Beautifying Part of Physic': Women's Cosmetic Practices in Early Modern England -- 'Soveraigne Receipts,' Fair Beauty, and Race in Stuart England -- PART TWO: CLOTHES -- The Greatness in Good Clothes: Fashioning Subjectivity in Mary Wroth's Urania and Margaret Spencer's Account Book -- What Not to Wear: Children's Clothes and the Maternal Advice of Elizabeth Jocelin and Brilliana, Lady Harley -- PART THREE: HAIR -- The Culture of the Head: Hair in Mary Wroth's Urania and Margaret Cavendish's 'Assaulted and Pursued Chastity' -- An 'absolute mistress of her self': Anne Clifford and the Luxury of Hair -- Conclusion -- Index.
Abstract:
"Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what waysskin, clothes and hair could be used to represent racial, class and gender identities, and to convey political, religious and philosophical ideals"-- Provided by publisher.
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