Three Faces Of Beauty

DIVA transnational study of female beauty based in an ethnographic study of beauty salons in Cairo, Casablanca, and Paris./div

Desires lead to actions, influence feelings, and determine what counts as a reward. Recent empirical evidence shows that these three aspects of desire stem from a common biological origin. The author reveals this common foundation and builds a striking new philosophical theory of desire that puts desire's neglected face-reward-at its core.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.

This original study offers, for the first time, an analysis of the characterization of Esther as she is portrayed in each of the three primary versions of the book of Esther-the Masoretic text, the Septuagint text, and the Greek a text. This study of characterization has implications beyond itself. It permits a reasssessment of relations between the book of Esther and other literature of the time, it sheds light on the place of origin of the ancient versions of Esther, and it raises serious feminist and canon-critical questions about the role of the book.

Defining power as the ability to get what we want, this volume identifies three major types of power: threat power; economic power; and, integrative power. It argues that threat power should not be seen as fundamental since it is not effective unless reinforced by economic and integrative power.

You and beauty. What choices would you make? If you were made an offer to become one of the most beautiful people in the world but you would never be able to have a sexual orgasm, would you accept or reject this offer? If God asked you to become ugly for the rest of your life in exchange for eternal life in heaven, would you accept God’s offer? Would you give up your beauty if this was the only way to save your child’s life? When a beautiful and a much less attractive person have sex, is the less attractive person more obligated to sexually please and satisfy their more beautiful partner? Should a man ask a woman who dyes her gray hair to let him see her without it dyed so he can see how old she looks before he becomes sexually or romantically involved with her? If given the choice between being an unattractive, straight person or a beautiful gay person all of your adult life, which would you choose? Would you stay or move out of your neighborhood if a whole lot of unattractive people moved in?