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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Beauty Culture"”.
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The Color(s) of Perfection: The Feminine Body, Beauty Ideals, and Identity in Postwar America, 1945-1970
… prescriptive literature, Hollywood, and popular culture in general created and perpetuated the postwar feminine ideal of "the Sweater girl" - a busty, curvaceous figure more sexual than maternal. Yet, this ideal gave way in little more than a decade. In the late 1960s, youth culture placed a …
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Everything Is Drag: The Politics of Performing Beautiful Women in Cold War Chile
… the role of productive sexualities such as beauty culture, sexual performance, and nude magazines in providing education in femininity under democracy and dictatorship. I show that, despite drastic regime shifts, including the presidency of socialist Salvador Allende and the US backed …
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Consuming Beauty: The Impact of Prescriptive Beauty Literature on College Women, 1940-1950
My thesis looks at prescriptive beauty messages generated during 1940-1950 by using a case study of Margaret Morrison Carnegie College. I look at formal prescriptive beauty messages (advertisements, beauty manuals) and informal beauty messages (college yearbooks, newspapers, and beauty queen …
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Risks, prevalence and management of carpal tunnel syndrome amidst Somatologists within the Western Cape
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the Degree of Master of Technology: Somatology, Health Sciences at Durban University of Technology, 2020.