Download or read book Beauty Secrets written by Wendy Chapkis and published by South End Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beauty Secrets" explores the links between appearance, gender and sexuality; it empowers women to share the secrets of their relationship to imposed standards of beauty showing how women are constantly required to 'pass' by wrapping their 'unacceptable' and 'undisguised' selves in layers of conformity to acceptable beauty standards. -- back cover.