‘Because it is beautiful’: New feminist perspectives on beauty

Feminist Theory

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 273-282

  Felski, Rita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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EID: 43249167033     PISSN: 14647001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464700106064424     Document Type: Article

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3. Hartney, Eleanor (2000) ‘Foreword’, pp.xiii-xv in Peg Zeglin Brand (ed.) Beauty Matters. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
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8. Walker, Alice (1983) ‘In Search of our Mother’sGardens’, pp. 231-243 in In Search ofour Mother’s Gardens: Womanist Prose. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich.