TY - BOOK ID - 134535044 TI - Extreme beauty : the body transformed PY - 2001 SN - 0300091176 PB - New Haven (Conn.): Yale university DB - UniCat UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134535044 AB - Over time and across cultures, extraordinary manipulations of the body have occurred in a continuing evolution of the concept of beauty. Fashion can be seen as the practice of some of the most extreme strategies to conform to shifting concepts of the physical ideal. Various zones of the body --the neck, the shoulders, the bust, the waist, the hips, and the feet-- have been constricted, padded, truncated, or extended through subtle visual adjustments of proportion, less subtle prosthesis, and, often, deliberate physical deformation. (Yale UP) ER -