The Cult of Beauty Authors María-Milagros Rivera Garretas DUODA, Universitat de Barcelona Keywords: woman, feminine beauty, feminine body, appearance, presence Abstract This text presents woman’s body as the form and identity of beauty. The beauty of the body does come from decoration, but it lies in the “appearance” and “presence” of women. The “appearance” of the feminine body is linked to omnipotence, because it allows the “appearance” of another life, the circle of life, the continuity of being. And the “presence” of beauty, source of admiration, constructs the otherness which relates the woman to the one who looks at her, the admirer. Therefore, the author atributes an almost mystical dimension to the beauty of woman’s body, which is the constructor of a symbolic order that can only be feminine. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2010-07-15 Issue No. 12 (2006): Feminismos del siglo XXI Section Dossier License The Author retains ownership of the copyright in this article, unless the opposite is expressed, and all rights not expressly granted in this agreement, including the nonexclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the article in print or electronic form, and grants, Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat the exclusive rights to print publication of the Article for a period beginning when this Agreement is executed and ending twelve (12) months after the first publicaton of the work in this Journal. After this time, the work will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license, by which the article must be credited to the Author and the Journal be credited as first place of publication. Beginning twelve (12) months after the article´s first publication, the Author is free to enter in seperate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work as published in this journal. The Author is encouraged to post the work online (eg in institutional or subject repositories, or on their website) after the exclusivity period of twelve (12) months has expired, as it can lead to productive exchanges as well as a greater citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
