Visualizing Beauty: Gender and Ideology in Modern East Asia

By: Aida Yuen Wong

Book Overview

Visualizing Beauty examines the intersections between feminine ideals and changing socio-political circumstances in China, Japan, and Korea during the first half of the twentieth century. Eight essays present a broad range of visual products that informed concepts of beauty and womanhood, including fashion, interior design magazines, newspaper illustrations, and paintings of and by women. Studying "Traditional Woman" and "New Woman" as historical categories, this anthology contemplates the complex relations between feminine subjectivity and the promotion of modernity, commerce, and colonialism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9888083902
• ISBN13: 9789888083909
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.8" x 9.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher