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Beautiful Bodies - Gender and Corporeal Aesthetics in the Past (Paperback)
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Beautiful Bodies - Gender and Corporeal Aesthetics in the Past (Paperback)
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This book explores the role of material culture in the formation of
corporeal aesthetics and beauty ideals in different past societies
and thus contributes to the cultural relativization of bodily
aesthetics and related gender norms. The volume does not explore
beauty for the sake of beauty, but extensively explores how it
serves to form and keep gender norms in place. The concept of
beauty has been a topic of interest for some time, yet it is only
in recent times that archaeologists have begun to approach beauty
as a culturally contingent and socially constructed phenomenon.
Although archaeologists and ancient historians extensively dealt
with gender, they dealt less with it in relation to beauty. The
contributions in this volume deal with different intersections of
gender and corporeal aesthetics by turning to rich archaeological,
textual and iconographic data from ancient Sumer, Aegean Bronze
Age, ancient Egypt, ancient Athens, Roman provinces, the Viking
world and the Qajar Iran. Beauty thus moves away from a curiosity
and surface of the body to an analytic concept for a better
understanding of past and present societies.
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