Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… moral virtues, cultural beliefs and women’s self-creation. Concepts > Taste & Manners Mots-clés Aesthetics Beauty Conduct Femininity Manners Women ‘Female beauty’, wrote Oliver Goldsmith in An History of the Earth (1776), ‘is always … of beauty. Such literature infiltrated the market across multiple platforms, from philosophical treatises and moral conduct manuals, to art, poetry, and critical satires. Women were often the focus of these commentaries, but the various … socially, and these changes presented several concerns. When combined with thoughts on femininity, masculinity, social conduct, patriarchal hierarchy, and fears of female superiority, the traditional concepts of beauty as an embodiment of …
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