Ciało, moda i tozsamosc kobiety epoki wiktorianskiej – dyskursy piekna i przemocy
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Date
2012
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im.Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
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Body, Fashion and Identity of a Victorian Age Woman – Discourses of Beauty and Violence
Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of the dominant ideal of beauty in the
Victorian period. The author defi nes mechanisms of repression and symbolic
violence over the body of the Victorian upper-class woman, connected with the
phenomenon of social control over the woman’s body and identity. The author
assumes that the desire to achieve physical beauty has always been a source
of a biographical experience that was constitutive for a woman, a source of
a separate identity for her in comparison with a man. The historical changes
of the ideals of the beautiful body are expressive of the complex interactions
between the social roles of women and the dominant ideology of femininity as
well as scientifi c and medical knowledge.
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ideal of beauty, fashion, identity, symbolic violence, Victorian femininity
Citation
Kultura-Społeczeństwo-Edukacja Nr 2/2012, s. 17-30
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978-83-232-2528-7