Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols

Beauty, Virtue, Power, and Success in Venezuela 1850-2015 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Beauty, Virtue, Power, and Success in Venezuela 1850-2015 examines the societal duty of Venezuelan women to display and perform their inner virtue and worth through careful management of their outer physical appearance in four historical moments: 1850-1890, 1910-1950, 1960-1990, and 2000-2015. Since the early 1800's, Venezuelan women-and more specifically, their bodies-have served as physical symbols of homeland, honor, and morality. Nichols contextualizes her study socially and historically by examining the impact of cultural phenomena like nineteenth-century eugenics, scientific motherhood, popular and elite literature, film, beauty pageants, and plastic surgery. This book tells the story of how Venezuelan women have learned to exercise and perform to societal expectations of beauty. Recommended for scholars of Latin American studies, women's studies, gender studies, sociology, and history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498523653
• Artikelnr.: 45482820

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols is professor of Spanish at Drury University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: 1850-1890
Chapter 1: Productive Heterosexuality and Feminine Beauty in the Nineteenth
Century
Chapter 2: Mercedes Mutis de Ibarra: The Powerlessness of Old Age
Chapter 3: Ana Teresa Ibarra de Guzmán: The (Irate) Caged Bird
Part II: 1910-1950
Chapter 4: The Ideal Mother: Decent Girls with Good Hair in the Early
Twentieth Century
Chapter 5: Teresa de la Parra: The Arduous Duty to Appear Beautiful
Chapter 6: Antonia Palacios: Learning to Be Decente
Part III: 1960-1999
Chapter 7: Modern Beauty Pageants and Contests: Individual and Collective
Identity
Chapter 8: Blonde and Wealthy: Strategic Beauty
Chapter 9: Stefania Mosca, Belén Valarino, and Lidia Rebrij: Cosmo Girls
Part IV: 2000-2015
Chapter 10: 100% Chic: Dressing Well to Guarantee Success in the
Twenty-First Century
Chapter 11: "Exotic" and Poor: Practical Beauty
Chapter 12: Plastic Surgery: Beauty and Consumption in Twenty-First Century
Venezuela