Bellissima : feminine beauty and the idea of Italy /
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven [Conn.] ; London :
Yale University Press,
[2007]
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Table of Contents:
- Italy, the land of beauty
- The blonde aura of Queen Margherita
- The rise of professional beauty
- Fascism and the allure of the female image
- Beauty and national identity after the Second World War
- Catholics, communists and beauty contests
- The female film stars of the 1950s
- Mass consumption and ideals of beauty
- Emancipation, eroticism and nostalgia
- Beauty and ethnicity in the age of globalisation
- The return of the 'bella italiana'.