Barbie has long functioned as a proxy onto which cultural aspirations and anxieties about womanhood are projected.
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Standards of beauty have been embedded in different cultures, in varying forms, from time immemorial. What endures is that women are still regarded as inferior to men.
It has long been thought the ancient Greeks used the Golden Ratio to beautify their art and architecture. Turns out that’s not really true.
Street artist Rone’s return to his home town gallery is sure to draw crowds — but his definition of ‘beauty’ is conventional and narrow.
The long history of racist beauty standards alone cannot explain the ongoing global use of harmful skin lighteners.
The more people watch TV the more likely it is that they prefer a slimmer female body size.
