Snook, Edith.
Basingstoke New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what ways skin, clothes and hair could be used to represent racial, class and gender identities, and to convey political, religious and philosophical ideals — Provided by publisher.
- Cosmetics. ‘The beautifying part of physic’ : women’s cosmetic practices in early modern England — ‘Soveraigne receipts’, fair beauty, and race in Stuart England — Clothes. The greatness in good clothes : fashioning subjectivity in Mary Wroth’s Urania and Margaret Spencer’s account book — What not to wear : children’s clothes and the maternal advice of Elizabeth Jocelin and Brilliana, Lady Harley — Hair. The culture of the head : hair in Mary Wroth’s Urania and Margaret Cavendish’s ‘Assaulted and pursued chastity’ — An ‘absolute Mistris of her Self’ : Anne Clifford and the luxury of hair.
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