In Your Face: The Culture Of Beauty And You
Author Shari Graydon's book, In Your Face is an informative guide to the concept of beauty. It takes a direct approach in covering the subject. Readers will be impressed by the educational facts and interesting details it includes. Facinating illustrations and photographs can be seen on nearly every page of this knowledgeable paperback. In its eleven chapters you will learn why and how beauty is such a high priority for most of the world's population.
From the time we are very young, the lessons of beauty are deeply ingrained in our minds. These lessons can be found in fairy tales, video games, teen movies, and fashion magazines. In Your Face teaches us how to recognize the deception of beauty and how not to be mislead by it.
It reminds us that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and has no single definition. The images we see in the media do not justly show the wide variety of beauty found world-wide. This book explores the history of beauty and how we relate to it.
I thought it was most interesting to discover the origins of such beauty related terms as, bigwig, rubenesque, highbrow, and narcississt. It also explains some of the past's most bizarre and torturous, beauty practices. In a chapter on the suffering involved, we learn about why individuals would undergo such painful procedures as footbinding, tattoos and piercings or plastic surgery.
This book answers many questions about the double standard between the sexes where looks and image are concerned. Readers are shown how good looks, height or hair color can have advantages and disadvantages in the work place. When we take an inside look at the world of beauty contests and movie stars it becomes clear that our ideas are far from reality.
Perhaps through the information offered in this book, young people will become more focused on personality than looks.
