The Power of Beauty · Our Looks, Our Lives by Friday, Nancy -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments I. The Gaze

My Mother’s Eyes Imagining the Beautiful Baby Pretty Babies Get Picked Up First The Mutual Gaze and the Crying Storm The Beauty of Separation: A Second Birth Giving Up the Idealization of Mother/Women Men in the Nursery

II. Envy

The Dark Side of Beauty “Bring Me Her Heart!” Sibling Rivalry: “What Is Beautiful Is Good” Learning to Be Clean (and Beautiful) Poor Vagina, a Rose by Any Other Name…

III. The Years of Invention

Freedom, Ah, the Feel of It, the Look of It! Seeing Ourselves on the Silver Screen Three Little Girls Can’t Play Together The Search for an Ego Ideal From Nancy Drew to Thelma and Louise The Power of the Negative Role Model The Tree House Versus the Sleep-Over Girls in Each Other’s Arms

IV. The Dance of Adolescence: Girls

Pretty Babies Get Picked Up First, Again Puberty: “A Farewell to Childhood” Temple or Sewer? Today I Am a Woman, or Is It a Curse? In Praise of Masturbation Anger: “Not a Pretty Face”: Swallow It The Ugly Denial of Mother-Daughter Competition The Group—The No-Compete Clause Looking for My Father’s Eyes

V. The Dance of Adolescence: Boys

The Look of Boys: Beloved Enemy “Be a Man!” How Girls Project on to Boys the Ugliness of Sex A Farewell to Penis Envy The Look of Anger “I Am the Father That Your Boyhood Lacked”

VI. Feminism and Beauty

“The Girls in Their Summer Dresses” Jax Pants and the Twist Wonderbras and Power Suits Thank You, Dr. Guttmacher The Looks of Revolution The Sexual Revolution Versus The Women’s Movement Feminism Versus Beauty and Men Women’s Ink/Women’s Blood Dressing for Success The Denial of Competition

VII. Men in the Mirror

My Grandfather’s Closet The Good Provider “What Does She See in Him?” Men’s Hungry Eyes “The Copulatory Gaze” The Fantasy Fuck Beauty in the Workplace: Courtship or Sexual Harassment? “Get Outa My Mirror!” The Short, Bald Takeover Tycoons and Their Towering Trophy Wives “The Future of Men’s Beauty Is Largely in Women’s Hands”

VIII. The Penis, the Shoe, and the Vagina

The Penis: Past, Present, and Future Of Feet and Fetishes The Codpiece

IX. Changing the Double Standard of Aging

Notes Bibliography