ISBN : 9781032499321
Author : Josie Schoel
Publisher : Routledge
Year : 2025
Language : English
Type : Book
Description : This work examines how beauty standards, specifically the ideology of 'fairness,' contributed to the racialization of bodies in early modern England. Schoel emphasizes the need to dismantle whiteness's invisibility in historical criticism, noting that it has long been an unexamined norm.