Body weight and beauty: the changing face of the ideal female body weight.
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By observing art from different eras, as well as the more recent existence of media, it is clear that what is considered a beautiful body has changed dramatically. The ideal of female beauty shifted from a symbol of fertility to one of mathematically calculated proportions. It took the form of an image responding to men's sexual desire.
,as androgynous fashion and appearance dominate our culture. The metamorphosis of the ideal woman follows the shifting role of women in society from mother and mistress to a career-orientated individual.Her depiction by artists across the centuries reveals this change in role and appearance that should be interpreted within the social and historical context of each era with its own theories of what constituted the ideal female body weight.
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