Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: BEAUTY AND THE BODY

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Class explores what bodies have meant in the West, especially the United States, how beauty has been idealized, how those meanings and ideals have changed over time, and why. Work will move between the study of bodily norms and ideals as promulgated by the powerful and self-presentation by the ordinary. Cross-list: HIST 538.