Women, beauty and power in early modern England
Subtitle: a feminist literary history
By: Edith Snook
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Basingstoke; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780230282858
Subjects: Women; English literature; Beauty, Personal, in literature; History and criticism; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies; Engels; Vrouwen; Women authors; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Intellectual life; HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century; Women in literature
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cosmetics.; title: The beautifying part of physic : women's cosmetic practices in early modern England; title: Soveraigne receipts, fair beauty, and race in Stuart England; title: Clothes. The greatness in good clothes : fashioning subjectivity in Mary Wroth's Urania and Margaret Spencer's account book; title: What not to wear : children's clothes and the maternal advice of Elizabeth Jocelin and Brilliana, Lady Harley; title: Hair. The culture of the head : hair in Mary Wroth's Urania and Margaret Cavendish's Assaulted and pursued chastity; title: An absolute mistress of her self : Anne Clifford and the Luxury of hair.