Women, beauty and power in early modern England [electronic resource] : a feminist literary history / Edith Snook.
Snook, Edith.
2011
PR113 .S66 2011eb
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Title
Women, beauty and power in early modern England [electronic resource] : a feminist literary history / Edith Snook.
Author
Snook, Edith.
ISBN
9780230302235 (electronic book)
9780230282858
Publication Details
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 230 p.) : ill.
Call Number
PR113 .S66 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.9/928709031
Summary
"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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Women, beauty and power in early modern England.
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Cosmetics. 'The beautifying part of physic' : women's cosmetic practices in early modern England
'Soveraigne receipts', fair beauty, and race in Stuart England
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
Hair. The culture of the head : hair in Mary Wroth's Urania and Margaret Cavendish's 'Assaulted and pursued chastity'
An 'absolute Mistris of her Self' : Anne Clifford and the luxury of hair.

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