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All Made Up
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All Made Up

The Power and Pitfalls of Beauty Culture, from Cleopatra to Kim Kardashian

Beacon Press, 2021 更多详情


Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Controversial
  • Innovative
  • Bold

Recommendation

Makeup generates power and confers status, but also takes them away, depending on culture, time and context. In a politically charged atmosphere where culture wars rage, Rae Nudson offers history, unusual analysis and controversial connotations. If gay and trans people use makeup, is it self-expression or rebellion against gender roles? If women leaders use it, are they putting their most powerful face forward or indulging the patriarchy? Makeup is “ink,” Nudson says, and it conveys a message – inadvertent or not.

Take-Aways

  • Standards of beauty change over time, and makeup creates and entrenches those standards.
  • Restricting the use of makeup to women is a Western convention.
  • To attain and keep power, women had to control how men perceived them.

About the Author

Reporter Rae Nudson has written for EsquireThe Cut, Paste MagazineThe WeekThe Billfold and Real Life, among others. 


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