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  2. Feminine beauty ideal - Wikipedia

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    Skin color contrast has been identified as a feminine beauty standard observed across multiple cultures. [7] Women tend to have darker eyes and lips than men, especially relative to the rest of their facial features, and this attribute has been associated with female attractiveness and femininity, [7] yet it also decreases male attractiveness according to one study. [8]

  3. Masculine beauty ideal - Wikipedia

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    Because masculine beauty standards are subjective, they change significantly based on location. A professor of anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, Alexander Edmonds, states that in Western Europe and other colonial societies (Australia, and North and South America), the legacies of slavery and colonialism have resulted in images of beautiful men being "very white."

  4. Susan Bordo - Wikipedia

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    Susan Bordo is an American philosopher work in contemporary cultural studies, with a particular focus on feminist theory. [1] Her scholarship examines the intersection of culture and the body, addressing topics such as eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, plastic surgery, ideals of beauty, racism and the body, masculinity, and sexual harassment.

  5. 'Men are no longer shy about exploring and playing with ...

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    Despite the boom, McKee says cosmetic companies still face challenges when marketing to straight men, often packaging products in a more "masculine" way in order to appear less "gay" or "feminine."

  6. How the Pandemic Has Turned Beauty Into a Tool for Self ...

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    “What we saw as the pandemic progressed is that people were trying things like doing their own nails or cutting their own hair, and it started to unearth a new self-confidence,” says Mukta ...

  7. Body positivity - Wikipedia

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    The body positivity movement focuses largely on women, believing that women face more societal pressure to conform to beauty standards than men. [42] [43] Eating disorders are more common in women due to this social phenomenon. [43] Nevertheless, men may face societal pressures to fit into a masculine physical ideal.

  8. How the beauty industry is coping in the era of COVID

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    The COVID pandemic has been an extreme time for the beauty industry. People have whipsawed between feeling nearly invisible to being super-exposed: Masks covered half of our faces for much of the ...

  9. Feminist aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    The historical philosophical views of what beauty, the arts, and sensory experiences are, relate to the idea of aesthetics. Aesthetics looks at styles of production. [ 3 ] In particular, feminists argue that despite seeming neutral or inclusive, the way people think about art and aesthetics is influenced by gender roles. [ 2 ]