Visualizing Beauty: Gender and Ideology in Modern East Asia

Visualizing Beauty: Gender and Ideology in Modern East Asia
ISBN-10
9888083899
ISBN-13
9789888083893
Category
Social Science
Pages
177
Language
English
Published
2012-01-01
Publisher
Hong Kong University Press
Author
Aida Yuen Wong

Description

Visualizing Beauty examines the intersections between feminine ideals and changing socio-political circumstances in China, Japan, and Korea during the first half of the twentieth century. Eight essays present a broad range of visual products that informed concepts of beauty and womanhood, including fashion, interior design magazines, newspaper illustrations, and paintings of and by women. Studying "Traditional Woman" and "New Woman" as historical categories, this anthology contemplates the complex relations between feminine subjectivity and the promotion of modernity, commerce, and colonialism.

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