Renaissance beauty regimes
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The Women Question in the Renaissance
Jill Book is a professor of Renaissance visual and material cultures at the University of Edinburgh. Her new book, How to Be a Renaissance Woman, explores the untold history of beauty and female creativity. The 15th and 16th century was a period when people began questioning traditional gender roles - but did it really mean that women were inferior?
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