The ideology of beauty
pp. 319-323
Abstract
The paper takes the position that the rhetoric of beauty to which Western woman is constantly subject is not "nature" but "ideology". It identifies social psychological research as uncritically employing the assumption that beauty is an asset and ugliness is a stigma. Instead it arguesusing sociological and psychoanalytic concepts-that beauty is a manufactured masquerade that hides the stigma of ugliness.
Publication details
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Stam Henderikus J., Mos Leendert, Thorngate Warren, Kaplan Bernie (1993) Recent trends in theoretical psychology: selected proceedings of the fourth biennial conference of the international society for theoretical psychology june 24–28, 1991. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 319-323
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-2746-5_29
Full citation:
Tseëlon Efrat (1993) „The ideology of beauty“, In: H. J. Stam, L. Mos, W. Thorngate & B. Kaplan (eds.), Recent trends in theoretical psychology, Dordrecht, Springer, 319–323.