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The Power of Beauty

Hardcover • 1996 • English

The Power of Beauty

By Nancy Friday

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About the book

The Power of Beauty traces the importance of looks in our lives from our first hours in the nursery through childhood, adolescence, and the years as adults and parents to old age. It examines developmentally the author's own experiences, the stages of life itself, the feminist revolution that for the past thirty years has rocked relationships between men and women, and contemporary culture from high art to pop. In addition, it draws on a decade of research Friday has conducted on the psychology ...Show more

Social and ethical issues
Health, illness and addiction: social aspects
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ISBN

9780060171407

Publisher

HarperCollins

Published year

1996

Language

English

Original title

The Power of Beauty

Format

Hardcover

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