Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… used to advocate and challenge established 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 … Martin has suggested that ‘the physical and moral nature of femininity’ allowed women to ‘function at the height of taste’. 6 With the rise of the bourgeoisie and the growing emphasis on taste and manners , women were seen as the ideal templates of grace, beauty and social etiquette. However, they were …
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