Beauty unlimited / edited by Peg Zeglin Brand ; foreword by Carolyn Korsmeyer.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Arthur Danto and the problem of beauty / Noël Carroll -- Savages, wild men, monstrous races : the social construction of race in the early modern era / Gregory Velazco y Trianosky -- Beauty's relational labor / Monique Roelofs -- Queer beauty : Winckelmann and Kant on the vicissitudes of the ideal / Whitney Davis -- Worldwide women / Eleanor Heartney -- Jenny Saville remakes the female nude : feminist reflections on the state of the art / Diana Tietjens Meyers -- Indigenous beauty / Phoebe M. Farris -- Is medical aesthetics really medical? / Mary Devereaux -- The bronze age revisited : the aesthetics of sun tanning / Jo Ellen Jacobs -- ¿Tienes Culo? : how to look at Vida Guerra / Karina L. Céspedes Cortes and Paul C. Taylor -- Beauty between disability and gender : Frida Kahlo in paper dolls / Fedwa Malti-Douglas -- Beauty, youth, and the Balinese legong dance / Stephen Davies -- Bollywood and the feminine : Hinduism and images of womanhood / Jane Duran -- Seductive shift : a review of "The most beautiful woman in Gucha" / Valerie Sullivan Fuchs -- Feminist art, content and beauty / Keith Lehrer -- ORLAN revisited : disembodied virtual hybrid beauty / Peg Zeglin Brand -- Beauty wars : the struggle over female modesty in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa / Allen Douglas and Fedwa Malti-Douglas -- Orientalism inside/out : the art of Soody Sharifi / Cynthia Freeland -- Beauty and the state : female bodies as state apparatus and recent beauty discourses in China / Eva Kit Wah Man -- Gendered bodies in contemporary Chinese art / Mary Bittner Wiseman.

"Emphasizing the human body in all of its forms, Beauty Unlimited expands the boundaries of what is meant by beauty both geographically and aesthetically. Peg Zeglin Brand and an international group of contributors interrogate the body and the meaning of physical beauty in this multidisciplinary volume. This striking and provocative book explores the history of bodily beautification; the physicality of socially or culturally determined choices of beautification; the interplay of gender, race, class, age, sexuality, and ethnicity within and on the body; and the aesthetic meaning of the concept of beauty in an increasingly globalized world."--Back cover.