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1	Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women more books like this by Naomi Wolf add to wishlist A sweeping indictment of the idealization and commercialization of female beauty by the American patriarchal culture as a backlash response to the feminist movement. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You more books like this by Simon Doonan add to wishlist Simon Doonan's ECCENTRIC GLAMOUR is intended as an antidote to the epidemic of slutty dressing and porno-chic which has taken over since the arrival of Paris Hilton and Tara Reid. In Simon's utopian world, conformity is the only crime and dressing down is the only faux-pas. Doonan believes that eccentric glamour is every woman's birthright. While ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.80! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image more books like this by Ophira Edut (Editor), Rebecca Walker (Foreword by) add to wishlist Pick up a magazine, turn on the TV, and you'll find few women who haven't been fried, dyed, plucked, or tucked. In short, you'll see no body outlaws. The writers in this groundbreaking anthology reveal a world where bodies come in all their many-splendored shapes, sizes, colors, and textures. In doing so, they expand the national dialogue on ... see all copies from $2.05! new only from $8.95! \| SVS
4	Fat! So? Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size more books like this by Marilyn Wann add to wishlist This amusing work shifts the dead weight of shame and blame and replaces it with feeling good about being fat. Being fat and happy is about style and attitude, and this book of quizzes, essays, reportage, and plain facts proves that anyone can be happy, healthy, successful and fat. see all copies from $3.47! new only from $9.56! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Universal Beauty: The Miss Universe Guide to Beauty more books like this by Cara Birnbaum add to wishlist Beauty writer Birnbaum and former Miss Universe winners bring together the diverse tips, insights, and secrets that have set these women apart and brought them to the pinnacle of beauty. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
6	Two Lipsticks & a Lover more books like this by Helena Frith Powell add to wishlist Why is it that French women look as glamorous in a T-shirt and pair of jeans as in a designer dress? What is the secret that keeps them sexy and attractive from eighteen or eighty? Why are they happiest when flirting? How do they stay pencil thin? And why do they seduce their best-friends' lovers? Helena Frith Powell goes deep undercover to expose ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $9.66!
7	Unbearable Weight more books like this by Susan Bordo add to wishlist In this provocative book, Susan Bordo untangles the myths, ideologies, and pathologies of the modern female body. Bordo explores our tortured fascination with food, hunger, desire, and control, and its effects on women's lives. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.49! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	The Art of Arousal more books like this by Ruth K Westheimer add to wishlist This is a celebration of one hundred of the most erotic paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings from diverse eras and cultures, coupled together with revealing commentaries about their sexual and aesthetic content. Erotic encounters have been celebrated by artists from the beginning of time. Presenting a wide range of provocative images, this ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Decades of beauty : the changing image of women, 1890's to 1990's more books like this by Kate Mulvey, Melissa Richards add to wishlist 'Decades of Beauty' charts the history of female beauty decade-by-decade from the end of the Victorian era to the present day. It highlights major changes which have affected the female image over the years, from corsets to the invention of nylon stockings, false eyelashes and the Wonderbra. Also investigated is the influence of the media on ... see all copies from $23.97! new only from $96.85!
10	Cosmo's Sexiest Beauty Secrets: The Ultimate Guide to Looking Gorgeous more books like this by Cosmopolitan (Editor) add to wishlist This definitive, get-gorgeous bible offers hundreds of insider tips and tricks on everything from scoring a flawless luminous complexion to creating sex-kitten hairstyles to working the latest make-up trends. Packed with beautiful images, the how-to instruction is presented in a fun, fresh, and visually-engaging way. And since Cosmo editors are ... see all copies from $10.05! new only from $11.27! \| SVS
11 view cover	Looks Book: A Whole New Approach to Beauty, Body, Image, and Style more books like this by E Drill add to wishlist This title features a range of beauty archetypes to help young women redefine their concepts of beauty while emphasizing self-expression and a healthy irreverence toward traditional ideals. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.81! \| first editions
12 view cover	Lesbians, Levis, and Lipstick more books like this by Jeanine Cogan, Ph.D. (Editor) add to wishlist What is lesbian beauty? These essays, poems and research papers are from women who describe both the freeing and restrictive aspects of beauty and fashion.' see all copies from $3.43! new only from $24.71!
13 view cover	The Power of Beauty: A Cultural Memoir of Beauty and Desire more books like this by Nancy Friday add to wishlist From the diaphragm to the WonderBra, the author of such classic books as My Secret Garden and My Mother/My Self traces the past 25 years of changes in women's attitudes about self-esteem, appearance, and sexuality. Taking readers from the Patriarchal Fifties to the Empty Package Nineties, Friday discuses a wide range of topics, exploring the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Beauty Queens: A Playful History more books like this by Candace Sherk Savave, Candace Sherk Savage add to wishlist An affectionate chronicle of the beauty pageant, from the 1850s to the present, illustrated with a wealth of photographs depicting a variety of beauty queens in all their glamor. 100 illustrations, 20 in color, 90 in quadtone. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Women's Bodies: Cultural Representations and Identity more books like this by Professor Jane Arthurs (Editor), Jean Grimshaw (Editor) add to wishlist This is a collection of essays which focuses on the representation of women's bodies in historical and contemporary cultures. It discusses recent books on the subject, and compares the two different approaches to the body adopted by the soft-porn magazine "For Women", and the women's monthly "Cosmopolitan". It also examines TV cult figures, such ... see all copies from $9.20! new only from $28.48!
16	Beauty in History: Society, Politics, and Personal Appearance more books like this by Arthur Marwick add to wishlist see all copies from $14.00! new only from $84.95! \| first editions
17 view cover	Monster/Beauty: Building the Body of Love more books like this by Joanna Frueh add to wishlist This daring, intensely personal book challenges both conventional and feminist ideas about beauty by asking us to take pleasure in beauty without shame, and to see and feel the erotic in everyday life. Bringing together her varied experiences as a poet, art historian, bodybuilder, and noted performance artist, Joanna Frueh shows us how to move ... see all copies from $2.40! new only from $3.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18	Beauty and the Best more books like this by Mrs. Debra Evans add to wishlist Christian women are bombarded every day with messages of what it means to be beautiful--and therefore valuable and successful. This book is more than mere philosophy about our view of beauty today. It offers practical information to enable you to separate help from hype, savvy from silliness. By examining advertising, media, trends, and current ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Learning Curves: Living Your Life in Full and with Style more books like this by Michele Weston add to wishlist In this book of empowerment, fashion and style director of MODE magazine Michele Weston encourages plus-sized women to accept and adorn their voluptuous bodies. In doing so, Weston shares her own experience of body acceptance, revealing how-- after years of trying to squeeze into size 12 dresses--she finally decided that her big body was beautiful ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.78! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Sex, Culture, and Justice: The Limits of Choice more books like this by Clare Chambers add to wishlist Autonomy is fundamental to liberalism. But autonomous individuals often choose to do things that harm themselves or undermine their equality. In particular, women often choose to participate in practices of sexual inequality - cosmetic surgery, gendered patterns of work and childcare, makeup, restrictive clothing, or the sexual subordination ... see all copies from $29.50! new only from $29.50!
21 view cover	Swimsuit Sweeties more books like this by Max Allan Collins add to wishlist "Artist Archives" is an extraordinary series of treasured artworks from the golden years of pin-up illustration. These collections are valuable references, as well as nostalgic reminders of glamorous periods. Each book showcases 14 carefully selected reproductions of artworks with attention to historic significance and artistic merit. see all copies from $2.49! new only from $15.00! \| first editions
22 view cover	Ziegfeld Girl-PB more books like this by Linda Mizejewski, Linda Mizejewski add to wishlist In the first decades of the twentieth century, Broadway teemed with showgirls, but only the Ziegfeld Girl has survived in American popular culture - as a figure of legend, nostalgia, and camp. Featured in Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.'s renowned revues, which ran on Broadway from 1907 to 1931, the Ziegfeld Girl has appeared in her trademark feather ... see all copies from $2.04! new only from $7.98! \| signed copies
23 view cover	Bellissima: Feminine Beauty and the Idea of Italy more books like this by Stephen Gundle add to wishlist Feminine beauty has been more discussed, appreciated, represented in art and associated with national cultural identity in Italy than in any other country. From the time of Dante and Petrarch, ideals of beauty have informed the work of artists, including Botticelli, Leonardo and Titian. The modern connection between the country and beauty dates ... see all copies from $8.40! new only from $8.40! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Women in Italian Renaissance Art: Gender, Representation and Identity more books like this by Paola Tinagli add to wishlist This is the first book which gives a general overview of women as subject-matter in Italian Renaissance painting. The text is divided into five chapters with an introduction, which cover the following themes: women as protagonists of narratives in paintings for domestic furniture; portraiture; the nude; and depictions of female saints. All of ... see all copies from $18.47! new only from $32.90! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Ain't I a Beauty Queen?: Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race more books like this by Maxine Leeds Craig add to wishlist Ain't I A Beauty Queen? is a study of black women as symbols, and as participants, in the reshaping of the meaning of black racial identity. The meanings and pracices of racial identity are continually reshaped as a result of the interplay of actions taken at the individual and institutional levels. In chapters that detail the history of pre-Civil ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $19.94! \| SVS

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