Beauty, Virtue, Power, and Success in Venezuela 1850–2015

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-08-17
Mått160 x 232 x 23 mm
Vikt517 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor232
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498523646

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

There are few studies that cover the lives, texts and contexts of Venezuelan women with the same clarity and erudition. Nichols shows the possibility of applying intersectionality as a tool of analysis to reflect on the construction of identity and capture the complexity of power relations, which is reflected in national public life around the female body. Beauty, Virtue, Power and Success in Venezuela 1850-2015 is an indispensable work for the investigation of beauty as a social phenomenon capable of promoting radical changes in the identity profile of a national community. [Translated from original Spanish]