Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… a certain je ne sais quoi - had on the way a person’s beauty was seen, was much more complex. In The Anatomy of Humane Bodies Epitomized (1703), Dr Thomas Gibson equated beauty to a pseudo-medical interpretation of physiognomy, aligning the … was processed by the viewer: how did one interpret inner beauty? 3 . Thomas Gibson, M. D., The Anatomy of Humane Bodies Epitomized (London: T. W. and John Churchill, 1703), p. 438–439. By the mid-century, in A Philosophical Enquiry … contrasting physical and emotional signifiers to each sex . However, as women became more socially active, with their bodies and behaviours more open to scrutiny, the belief that beauty and feminine delicacy went hand in hand became …
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