Beauty in Feminist Terms

When exactly did feminism divorce itself from femininity? As a child of the 70′s, I grew up with conflicting images of beauty and power. What was intrinsically feminine was also the source of inequality. Beauty was not included in the modes of seeming liberated. Beauty seemed decadent, irrelevant, frivolous – clearly not the stuff of serious feminists fighting the good fight. From the braless, natural and makeup free women of my childhood,... Read More