Volume 30, Number 9 · June 2, 1983
Skin Deep
By Alison Lurie
American Beauty
by Lois W. Banner
Knopf, 369 pp., $20.00
Skin to Skin: Eroticism in Dress
by Prudence Glynn
Oxford University Press, 157 pp., $19.95
What is Beauty? The question has been debated on every level from the highest and most philosophical to the lowest and most pornographic, with opponents sometimes coming to blows over the rival charms of their ideal or real mistresses. Is She (for Beauty is traditionally female) a Platonic idea or a passing fancy? And, if corporeal, is she deliciously svelte, desirably stout, or divinely strong?
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