WMST 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf, Plastic Surgery
12 Apr 2016
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In some sense we"ve had the concept of beauty for as long as written history. Plato focused on beauty, though in its most abstract form, as it applied to persons, artifacts, and bits of nature. But talk of beauty in its modern sense (as a term applicable immediately and primarily to women, and something they should be thinking about) began with the industrial revolution. It has intensified over the next century and a half. Before the middle of the 19th century, most people lived with extended family members in small agrarian communities. Marriages were planned and not normally base on physical attraction. Unless a woman was aristocratic, her value in marriage was measured by her work ethic, her physical strength, stamina and constitution, and fertility (cid:1) (cid:1) People living on their own (social atomism) Became detached from religious and traditional values.
