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Oxbow Books Beautiful Bodies: Gender and Corporeal Aesthetics in the Past

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This scholarly volume examines how material culture shaped beauty ideals and corporeal aesthetics across ancient societies, offering crucial insights into the cultural construction of gender norms. Rather than celebrating beauty in isolation, the book investigates the mechanisms through which aesthetic standards reinforced and maintained gender hierarchies in past civilisations. Published by Oxbow Books, this work represents a modern archaeological approach to beauty as a socially constructed phenomenon deeply embedded in cultural context. The volume contributes to understanding how bodily aesthetics functioned as tools for social organisation and gender regulation, moving beyond earlier treatments of beauty as a universal or timeless concept. Readers will discover how different past societies used aesthetic ideals to encode and perpetuate gender norms, making this essential reading for archaeologists, historians, and scholars interested in the intersection of material culture, gender studies and ancient history.

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Explores material culture's role in shaping corporeal aesthetics and beauty ideals across different past societies.

Examines how beauty standards served to form and maintain gender norms in ancient civilisations.

Presents an archaeological perspective on beauty as a culturally contingent and socially constructed phenomenon.

Published by Oxbow Books, offering scholarly treatment of gender and bodily aesthetics in historical contexts.

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paperback
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Amazon UK
Release Date
15 January 2022
Listed Since
27 August 2021

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