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Fri Jun 28

Friday essay: how 19th century ideas influenced today's attitudes to women’s beauty

Written by Michelle Smith, Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University

An advertisement for breast implants in Sydney in 2015. Advertisements often promote a 'natural' ideal of beauty, even when advocating surgical intervention.Paul Millar/AAP

In the 19th century, a range of thinkers attempted to pinpoint exactly what it was that made a woman beautiful. Newly popular women’s magazines began to promote ideas...

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