Article about Western Ideas of Beauty. (Not particularly feministically-spinned -yes, I realize that's not actually a word - but beautiful and thought-provoking all the same.)
An excerpt: "There have been certain identifiable refrains in Western writing on beauty. One is that it must be apprehended disinterestedly: that you have to step back from the pleasure part, or rather sternly set aside the liking for pleasure we usually call desire. Beauty should somehow be its own reward rather than something which stimulates or satisfies an appetite for something else. [...] Love comes in at the eye...and so should beauty, engaging nothing of us below the neck, let alone the waist."
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