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2016-2017 University Catalog 
    
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HIST 31505 - American Beauty


Credit Hours: 3.00. This course explores twentieth-century gender history in the United States through the concept of beauty. Ideals about beauty intersect with politics, economics, technological developments, medical innovations, and nation building. A critical examination of beauty as seen through advertising, pageants, and material culture, yields insight about modern womanhood, everyday life, and identify formation in the twentieth century United States. Typically offered Fall Spring.