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A provocative exploration of the links between appearance, gender, and sexuality. Discusses beauty and ugliness, racism and beauty standards, and the role of class in shaping images of beauty.

“Beauty Secrets brings together the global and the deeply personal in a complex, absolutely original analysis. Every woman—whatever her age or race—will find herself here. Chapkis’ writing is fully appropriate to the subject: it manages to be as beautiful as it is serious and committed.”—Barbara Ehrenreich