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  2. Feminine beauty ideal - Wikipedia

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    The feminine beauty ideal is a specific set of beauty standards regarding traits that are ingrained in women throughout their lives and from a young age to increase their perceived physical attractiveness. It is experienced by many women in the world, though the traits change over time and vary in country and culture. [1]

  3. Perceptions of the female body in medieval Europe - Wikipedia

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    Thus, "The medieval body was central to a process of social classification according to categories of age, health, sex and purity, which were regulated through constructed categories such as stigma and gender." [10] The body was not so much a self-chosen expression of the self as an outward marker of inner morality, worthiness, and station.

  4. Female body shape - Wikipedia

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    The ideal or preferred female body size and shape has varied over time and continues to vary among cultures; [46] [47] but a preference for a small waist has remained fairly constant throughout history. [48] A low waist–hip ratio has often been seen as a sign of good health and reproductive potential. [49]

  5. Media depictions of body shape - Wikipedia

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    Lovejoy finds in her research—which compares the perceptions of body image and eating disorders in black and white women through a literature review—that the strategies (e.g., resistance to mainstream beauty ideals) that black women use to challenge mainstream depictions of female bodies and develop positive self-valuations are often ...

  6. How Chinese American women are at the intersection of the ...

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    Nigerian women experience far less thin idealization than white Western and Chinese women, with the ideal body size in several African countries being larger than that of China and in the West.

  7. Femininity - Wikipedia

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    Women in Ancient Greece wore himations; and in Ancient Rome women wore the palla, a rectangular mantle, and the maphorion. [ 54 ] The typical feminine outfit of aristocratic women of the Renaissance was an undershirt with a gown and a high-waisted overgown, and a plucked forehead and beehive or turban-style hairdo.

  8. The Overdue, Under-Told Story Of The Clitoris

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    From ancient history to the modern day, the clitoris has been discredited, dismissed and deleted -- and women's pleasure has often been left out of the conversation entirely. Now, an underground art movement led by artist Sophia Wallace is emerging across the globe to challenge the lies, question the myths and rewrite the rules around sex and the female body.

  9. History of removal of leg and underarm hair in the United States

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    The population of women increased by two thirds between 1890 and 1920 and the literacy rate jumped to 94% in 1920. Both of these demographic shifts increased the audience for women's magazines. The most popular women's magazine, Ladies' Home Journal, had 25,000 readers by the end of its first year. The reach of these women's magazines meant ...