by Nancy Friday · Hutchinson · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780091777999
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«The Power of Beauty» is Nancy Friday's essay on female beauty and sexuality, published by Hutchinson in paperback (589 pages, in English).
Nancy Friday combines her own personal story with social commentary to analyse how women's attitudes towards their appearance, self-esteem and sexuality have changed over twenty-five years. The journey goes from the Paris catwalks to domestic life and analyses the power beauty exerts over relationships and female identity.
This edition includes a new preface and an epilogue written by Nancy Friday, as well as bibliographic references (pages 577-589).
A work aimed at readers of gender studies, sociology and psychology interested in the relationship between female image, self-esteem and sexuality.
Nancy Colbert Friday was an American author who wrote on the topics of female sexuality and liberation. Her writings argue that women have often been reared under an ideal of womanhood, which was outdated and restrictive, and largely unrepresentative of many women's true inner lives, and that openness about women's hidden lives could help free women to truly feel able to enjoy being themselves. She asserts that this is not due to deliberate malice, but due to social expectation, and that for women's and men's benefit alike it is healthier that both be able to be equally open, participatory and free to be accepted for who and what they are.
