Esthetics, eroticism and sex parity: Umberto Eco’s History of Beauty and History of Ugliness
<span>The topic of comparative analysis which is presented in this article is The Story of Beauty and The Story of Ugliness edited by Umberto Eco. Even the covers of these books show the contrast between men and women. How esthetic values build a feedback with sexual parity? Ugly men look at b...
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| description | <span>The topic of comparative analysis which is presented in this article is The Story of Beauty and The Story of Ugliness edited by Umberto Eco. Even the covers of these books show the contrast between men and women. How esthetic values build a feedback with sexual parity? Ugly men look at beautiful women – this patriarchal discrimination can’t be cancelled either by the parity of sex in The Story of Beauty, nor men who twice outnumber them in The Story of Ugliness. Also as the unfair sex they are prior sex: they humiliate themselves and elevate women</span> |
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| spelling | doaj-art-2bc076d8b68a400fad2ddd59af081d9f2025-08-20T02:11:19ZpolAdam Mickiewicz UniversityPrzestrzenie Teorii1644-67632450-57652012-01-011711513710.14746/pt.2012.17.83341Esthetics, eroticism and sex parity: Umberto Eco’s History of Beauty and History of UglinessKrzysztof Obremski<span>The topic of comparative analysis which is presented in this article is The Story of Beauty and The Story of Ugliness edited by Umberto Eco. Even the covers of these books show the contrast between men and women. How esthetic values build a feedback with sexual parity? Ugly men look at beautiful women – this patriarchal discrimination can’t be cancelled either by the parity of sex in The Story of Beauty, nor men who twice outnumber them in The Story of Ugliness. Also as the unfair sex they are prior sex: they humiliate themselves and elevate women</span>http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pt/article/view/3370wartości estetycznepięknobrzydotaparytet płciowy |
| spellingShingle | Krzysztof Obremski Esthetics, eroticism and sex parity: Umberto Eco’s History of Beauty and History of Ugliness Przestrzenie Teorii wartości estetyczne piękno brzydota parytet płciowy |
| title | Esthetics, eroticism and sex parity: Umberto Eco’s History of Beauty and History of Ugliness |
| title_full | Esthetics, eroticism and sex parity: Umberto Eco’s History of Beauty and History of Ugliness |
| title_fullStr | Esthetics, eroticism and sex parity: Umberto Eco’s History of Beauty and History of Ugliness |
| title_full_unstemmed | Esthetics, eroticism and sex parity: Umberto Eco’s History of Beauty and History of Ugliness |
| title_short | Esthetics, eroticism and sex parity: Umberto Eco’s History of Beauty and History of Ugliness |
| title_sort | esthetics eroticism and sex parity umberto eco s history of beauty and history of ugliness |
| topic | wartości estetyczne piękno brzydota parytet płciowy |
| url | http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pt/article/view/3370 |
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