While a slender body is a prerequisite for beauty today, plump women were considered ideal in Tang Dynasty China and Hei
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English Pages xiii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Year 2012
Table of contents :
Prologue : The search for the beautiful woman --
Favored appearances --
Feared beauties --
The rhetoric of representation --
Beauty as a construct --
Beauties in Chinese verse and prose, beauties in Japanese literature --
Resonance of aesthetic views --
Edo culture as a filter --
Until Naomi was born --
Epilogue : Where beauty will go.