The Beauty Suit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Beauty Suit write by Lauren Shields. This book was released on 2018-05-15. The Beauty Suit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A young feminist finds herself questioning why “hotness” has become necessary for female empowerment—and looks for alternatives. Looking good feels good. But in a society where looking good is posited as being strong, while negotiating for better pay is statistically proven to damage our careers, is it fair to say that wicked eyeliner, weekly blowouts, and a polished Instagram feed are the keys to our liberation? If so—if “hot” really is a good enough synonym for “empowered”—why do so many of us feel, deep in our bones, that the sexy-as-strong model is a distraction? Is “pretty” still the closest to power women can get? Why is looking fierce an acceptable substitute for living in a world where women are safe? Inspired in seminary by American Muslimahs who wear the hijab for feminist reasons, Lauren Shields took off what she calls the Beauty Suit—the “done” hair, the tasteful and carefully applied makeup, the tight clothes and foot-binding shoes—for nine months. She’d really only wanted to do an experiment. Instead, her life—especially her views on what constitutes “liberation”—changed forever. Rooted in feminist theory and religious history, and guided by a snappy personal narrative, The Beauty Suit unpacks modern American womanhood: a landscape where the female body is still so often the battleground for male ideals, and where we struggle with our rights as human beings to define and exercise our freedom.
The Beauty of Modesty
The Beauty of Modesty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Beauty of Modesty write by David J. Vaughan. This book was released on 2005-05. The Beauty of Modesty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A look at our cultural preferences today of showing as much skin as possible transposed against the choice to be modest and the values of the choice.
A Return to Modesty
A Return to Modesty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Return to Modesty write by Wendy Shalit. This book was released on 2014-05-20. A Return to Modesty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Updated with a new introduction, this fifteenth anniversary edition of A Return to Modesty reignites Wendy Shalit’s controversial claim that we have lost our respect for an essential virtue: modesty. When A Return to Modesty was first published in 1999, its argument launched a worldwide discussion about the possibility of innocence and romantic idealism. Wendy Shalit was the first to systematically critique the "hook-up" scene and outline the harms of making sexuality so public. Today, with social media increasingly blurring the line between public and private life, and with child exploitation on the rise, the concept of modesty is more relevant than ever. Updated with a new preface that addresses the unique problems facing society now, A Return to Modesty shows why "the lost virtue" of modesty is not a hang-up that we should set out to cure, but rather a wonderful instinct to be celebrated. A Return to Modesty is a deeply personal account as well as a fascinating intellectual exploration into everything from seventeenth-century manners to the 1948 tune "Baby, It’s Cold Outside." Beholden neither to social conservatives nor to feminists, Shalit reminds us that modesty is not prudery, but a natural instinct—and one that may be able to save us from ourselves.
Modesty, Makeovers, and the Pursuit of Physical Beauty
Modesty, Makeovers, and the Pursuit of Physical Beauty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modesty, Makeovers, and the Pursuit of Physical Beauty write by Jeffrey R. Holland. This book was released on 2006-01-01. Modesty, Makeovers, and the Pursuit of Physical Beauty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Designed by God
Designed by God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Designed by God write by Regina Franklin. This book was released on 2006. Designed by God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Straight but sensitive talk to young women about modesty, beauty, self-image, and who God created them to be.
