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That beauty is an art, like dancing

Discovering your abilities requires at least one partner

You don’t have to be beautiful to dance

Appreciating yourself makes you beautiful

Deficient children’s safety for poor black people in the segregation years

Unequal gender standards among boys and girls

Unethical privileging of a child just for being beautiful

Brain damage as related to body damage

Scars and wrinkles can be beautiful as indicators of experience

Becoming a mother is more important than not being beautiful

Realizing that one should compromise with one’s deficiencies is best

Authorship of her experiences transforms them into a source of beauty

Kant

The Christians

The Greeks

The Americans

Kant

The Christians

The Greeks

Elaine Scarry

If you are beautiful and a woman, you are likely to be attacked

If you are beautiful it is as binding for your character as if you are ugly

Being beautiful is a binding concern for both men and women

Being beautiful is an imperative for women, but then they call them shallow

Turned the body from an essential reality into a distanced fetish

Created a “cult of the youthful and fit body”

Converted the ideal for beauty into a that of a machine-like body

All of the above

The denial of death

The denial of sexuality

The denial of suffering

None of the above

Clash with those of Bordo on the basis of a political dimension

Clash with those of Bordo on the basis of an ethnocentric dimension

Agree with those of Bordo, but add a political dimension

Agree with those of Bordo, but add a racist component