Beauty in Different Cultures From the West to …. Health and Self-Image Dr. Peih-ying Lu Oct. 15, 2009

Ancient Greek and Roman Culture Primitive cultures valued obesity in women The ideals of feminine beauty changed as civilizations developed. The ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans valued thinness in women.

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After the collapse of the Roman Empire, the full-bodied woman again gained favor.

Medieval Age from the Ellesmere manuscript of The Canterbury Tales, The Huntington Library, California, USA

Renaissance women National Portrait Gallery, London

18th Century ss.com/2009/02/12/wo men-readers-in-the- eighteenth-century- and-the-british- museum/ During the eighteenth century, this began to change, at least for the upper class. While artists continued to depict peasant women as robust, they began to portray their wealthier counterparts as thin. women-readers-in-the-eighteenth-century- and-the-british-museum/

By the late nineteenth century, women’s magazines were sending strong messages about body size, standardized sizes had been introduced, and clothing was being mass-produced.

Beauty in the 19th Century

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In the 1890s, American illustrators began depicting the ideal young American woman as tall, thin and athletic.

The image of the flapper, a thin boyish look that women dieted and bound their breast to attain.

With the depression and World War II, the ideals for women became more mature and the body size slightly heavier. This change is reflected in the sex symbols of the 1940s and 1950s

By the mid-1950s, thinness was againg being emphasized. The image of Barbie Doll

Beauty in Confucian Culture And it’s your turn…. 5 minutes talk about the change of concept of Beauty in Confucian Culture Is it influence by Western Culture to some certain extent?