Visualizing beauty
Subtitle: gender and ideology in modern East Asia
By: edited by Aida Yuen Wong
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Hong Kong
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9789888083893; 9789888083909
Subjects: Social conditions; History; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics); Women
Other titles: Gender and ideology in modern East Asia
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-173) and index
Table of contents: title: Beauty battle: politics and portraiture in late Meiji Japan / Karen M. Fraser; title: Painting manuals and gendered modernity in Republican-era Shanghai / Lisa Claypool; title: How "modern" was the modern woman? Crossed legs and modernity in 1930s Shanghai calendar posters, pictorial magazines, and cartoons / Francesca Dal Lago; title: Fashioning appearances: feminine beauty in Chinese Communist revolutionary culture / Hung-yok Ip; title: The modern girl (Modeon Geol) as a contested symbol in colonial Korea / Yeon Shim Chung; title: Female images in 1930s Korea: virtuous women and good mothers / Yisoon Kim; title: Japanese images of Asian women in "traditional" clothes in the age of empire / Kaoru Kojima; title: The gender of beauty in architectural and interior design discourse in modern Japan / Sarah Teasley.