The Search For The Beautiful Woman

Author : Cho Kyo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442218959
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Search for the Beautiful Woman written by Cho Kyo and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While a slender body is a prerequisite for beauty today, plump women were considered ideal in Tang Dynasty China and Heian-period Japan. Starting around the Southern Song period in China, bound feet symbolized the attractiveness of women. But in Japan, shaved eyebrows and blackened teeth long were markers of loveliness. For centuries, Japanese culture was profoundly shaped by China, but in complex ways that are only now becoming apparent. In this first full comparative history of the subject, Cho Kyo explores changing standards of feminine beauty in China and Japan over the past two millennia. Drawing on a rich array of literary and artistic sources gathered over a decade of research, he considers which Chinese representations were rejected or accepted and transformed in Japan. He then traces the introduction of Western aesthetics into Japan starting in the Meiji era, leading to slowly developing but radical changes in representations of beauty. Through fiction, poetry, art, advertisements, and photographs, the author vividly demonstrates how criteria of beauty differ greatly by era and culture and how aesthetic sense changed in the course of extended cultural transformations that were influenced by both China and the West.

Author : Kyō Chō
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442218940
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Search for the Beautiful Woman written by Kyō Chō and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, Japanese culture, including ideals of feminine beauty, was profoundly shaped by China. In this first full comparative history on the subject, Cho Kyo explores changing standards of beauty in China and Japan, ranging from plumpness to bound feet to blackened teeth. Drawing on a rich array of sources gathered over a decade of research, he considers which Chinese representations were rejected or accepted and transformed in Japan. He then traces the introduction of Western aesthetics into Japan starting in the Meiji era, leading to slowly developing but radical changes in the repres.

Author : Alyssa Palombo
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466882646
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence written by Alyssa Palombo and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the tradition of Tracy Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, Palombo has married fine art with romantic historical fiction in this lush and sensual interpretation of Medici Florence, artist Sandro Botticelli, and the muse that inspired them all." - Booklist A girl as beautiful as Simonetta Cattaneo never wants for marriage proposals in 15th Century Italy, but she jumps at the chance to marry Marco Vespucci. Marco is young, handsome and well-educated. Not to mention he is one of the powerful Medici family’s favored circle. Even before her marriage with Marco is set, Simonetta is swept up into Lorenzo and Giuliano de’ Medici’s glittering circle of politicians, poets, artists, and philosophers. The men of Florence—most notably the rakish Giuliano de’ Medici—become enthralled with her beauty. That she is educated and an ardent reader of poetry makes her more desirable and fashionable still. But it is her acquaintance with a young painter, Sandro Botticelli, which strikes her heart most. Botticelli immediately invites Simonetta, newly proclaimed the most beautiful woman in Florence, to pose for him. As Simonetta learns to navigate her marriage, her place in Florentine society, and the politics of beauty and desire, she and Botticelli develop a passionate intimacy, one that leads to her immortalization in his masterpiece, The Birth of Venus. Alyssa Palombo’s The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence vividly captures the dangerous allure of the artist and muse bond with candor and unforgettable passion.

Author : Sarah Banet-Weiser
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520922603
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Most Beautiful Girl in the World written by Sarah Banet-Weiser and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Banet-Weiser complicates the standard feminist take on beauty pageants in this intriguing look at a hotly contested but enduringly popular American ritual. She focuses on the Miss America pageant in particular, considering its claim to be an accurate representation of the diversity of contemporary American women. Exploring the cultural constructions and legitimations that go on during the long process of the pageant, Banet-Weiser depicts the beauty pageant stage as a place where concerns about national identity, cultural hopes and desires, and anxieties about race and gender are crystallized and condensed. The beauty pageant, she convincingly demonstrates, is a profoundly political arena deserving of serious study. Drawing on cultural criticism, ethnographic research, and interviews with pageant participants and officials, The Most Beautiful Girl in the World illustrates how contestants invent and reinvent themselves while articulating the female body as a national body. Banet-Weiser finds that most pageants are characterized by the ambivalence of contemporary "liberal" feminism, which encourages individual achievement, self-determination, and civic responsibility, while simultaneously promoting very conventional notions of beauty. The book explores the many different aspects of the Miss America pageant, including the swimsuit, the interview, and the talent competitions. It also takes a closer look at some extraordinary Miss Americas, such as Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America; Vanessa Williams, the first African American Miss America; and Heather Whitestone, the first Miss America with a disability.

Author : Anne Ortlund
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 9780884863410
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gentle Ways of a Beautiful Woman written by Anne Ortlund and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the woman who wants to be truly beautiful, inside and out, Anne Ortlund's trio of bestselling handbooks offers all the practical "how-to's" and thoughtful encouragement she needs. Disciplines of the Beautiful Woman, Ortlund's first bestseller, challenges women to reshape their lives, their households, and their schedules according to God's liberating priorities. Disciplines of the Heart focuses on the "heart life" and shows readers how to move from preoccupation with "things" to a satisfying intimacy with God. The finale, Disciplines of the Home, offers inspiration and practical guidance on creating and enjoying a family home that restores, nourishes, and blesses all who enter. Women who long for inner peace will cherish this warm, personal guide to godly, beautiful living.

Author : Cynthia Heald
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1414300859
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncommon Beauty written by Cynthia Heald and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Heald has chosen seven qualities that make a woman beautiful, and illustrated those traits with key women from history, literature, the Bible, and society.

Author : Marie Benedict
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1492666874
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Only Woman in the Room written by Marie Benedict and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER Bestselling author Marie Benedict reveals the story of a brilliant woman scientist only remembered for her beauty. Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side and understood more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee in disguise from their castle, and the whirlwind escape landed her in Hollywood. She became Hedy Lamarr, screen star. But she kept a secret more shocking than her heritage or her marriage: she was a scientist. And she had an idea that might help the country fight the Nazis and revolutionize modern communication...if anyone would listen to her. A powerful book based on the incredible true story of the glamour icon and scientist, The Only Woman in the Room is a masterpiece that celebrates the many women in science that history has overlooked. Other Bestselling Historical Fiction from Marie Benedict: The Mystery of Mrs. Christie Lady Clementine Carnegie's Maid The Other Einstein

Author : Bettany Hughes
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 184413329X
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Helen of Troy written by Bettany Hughes and published by Random House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for close on three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield. Because of her double marriage to the Greek King Menelaus and the Trojan Prince Paris, Helen was held responsible for an enduring enmity between East and West. For millennia she has been viewed as ane xquisite agent of extermination. But who was she?

Author : Julián López
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612196810
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Beautiful Young Woman written by Julián López and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2017 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As political violence escalates around them, a young boy and his single mother live together in an apartment in Buenos Aires - which has recently been taken over by Argentina's military dictatorship. When the boy returns home one day to find his mother missing, the story fractures, and the reader encounters him fully grown, consumed by the burden of his loss, attempting to reconstruct the memory of his mother. By leaping forward in time, the boy - now a man - subtly gives shape to his mother's activism, and in the process recasts the memories from his childhood.

Author : Vincent W. Beale, Jr.
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781499303759
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Most Beautiful Woman in the Room written by Vincent W. Beale, Jr. and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Individuals from all walks of life, and all careers, are afraid of going fully after their dreams, goals, aspiration, clients or simply the object of their desires. This is the exact same feeling a man gets when he sees the most beautiful woman he has ever seen. Learn how to go and talk to this woman and at the same time learn to conquer your dream...Life, Sales..The Most Beautiful Woman in the Room... all the same thing!