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Face Value

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First published in 1984, Face Value confronts the pervasive power of beauty through art and literature, as well as interviews with men and women with varying perspectives on the subject. The topics covered range widely: the history of beauty from the Greeks to the present; the pathology of beauty: how women have been willing to harm themselves, mentally and physically, to achieve 'beauty'; the language we use to speak of beauty, and its implications; our attitudes towards beauty, as examined by psychologists; beauty and ethnic identity; men and beauty. The authors present in fact a redefinition of beauty, enabling both women and men to enjoy it in themselves and in others, while discarding the sex-role stereotypes that have governed the definition of beauty in the past. With a new preface that explores the gaps created by time in the book's discourse, this book will be of interest to students of linguistics, gender studies, women's studies, cultural studies, sociology and anthropology.

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ISBN: 9781032381497
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Author: Robin Tolmach Lakoff, Raquel L Scherr
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 342 pages
Series: Routledge Revivals
Genres: Gender studies, gender groups
Popular culture
Sociolinguistics
Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics
Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
History