Beauty Secrets: Women and the Politics of Appearance
Wendy Chapkis1986

"Beauty Secrets" explores the links between appearance, gender and sexuality; it empowers women to share the secrets of their relationship to imposed standards of beauty showing how women are constantly required to 'pass' by wrapping their 'unacceptable' and 'undisguised' selves in layers of conformity to acceptable beauty standards

Titre original : Beauty Secrets: Women and the Politics of Appearance (1986)