Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: BEAUTY AND THE BODY

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Class explores what bodies have meant in the West, and how those meanings have changed over time. Study how self-presentation (bodily, sartorial, cosmetic) has been used and examine what beauty ideals have been over the past centuries, and by which elites and ordinary people have strived to realize them. Cross-list: HIST 339.