by Alicia Giménez Bartlett · Lumen · tapa dura · ISBN 9788426480002
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«La deuda de Eva» is Alicia Giménez Bartlett's essay on female beauty, published by Lumen in hardback (190 pages, in Spanish).
The essay starts from the social pressure that turns female beauty into a debt owed to a judging environment. It covers cases such as Cleopatra, Bette Davis or Hillary Clinton, and responses such as cosmetics, surgery, capitalizing on ugliness in the manner of nineteenth-century female travellers, or appearing tough to make one's way in politics and business.
Subtitled «Del pecado de ser feas y el deber de ser hermosas», it was published in 2002 in the collection «Las mil y una voces. Ensayo» and this edition includes bibliography and plates.
It will appeal to essay readers and to anyone wishing to reflect on beauty standards and the aesthetic pressure on women.
Alicia Giménez Bartlett is a Spanish writer particularly known for her series of detective novels with protagonist Petra Delicado.
