I'm back! Did you miss me?

In this episode, I'm taking you on a journey through the ways beauty standards twisted and transformed during some of history's darkest moments- from the death-obsessed world of the Black Death to the patriotic glamour demanded during World War I & World War II.

We'll uncover why people clung to fragile, disciplined, or "pure" aesthetics when everything around them was falling apart. We'll talk plagues, pin-ups, propaganda, and the way modern beauty culture still mirrors those old fears.

Are. You. Ready?

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Sources & Further Reading:

Naomi Wolf — The Beauty Myth (1990)

Millard Meiss — Painting in Florence and Siena After the Black Death (1951)

Katherine Byrne — Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination (2011)

Kathy Peiss — Hope in a Jar (1998)

George Mosse — Nationalism and Sexuality (1985)

Ruth Ben-Ghiat — Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present (2020)

Jia Tolentino — Trick Mirror (2019)

Oxford University Press — Women in Wartime analyses (various authors)

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