TY - JOUR
AU - Moore, Megan Rivers
AB - Introduction Feminist Theory 14(2) 131–136 Beauty, race and feminist ! The Author(s) 2013 Reprints and permissions: theory in Latin America and sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1464700113483233 the Caribbean fty.sagepub.com Mo´nica G. Moreno Figueroa Newcastle University, UK Megan Rivers-Moore University of Toronto, Canada Feminist theorising on the question of beauty has gained an important place amongst critical scholars, as attested by a wide range of well-documented and insightful research. Rather than seeing beauty simply as a ‘window’ into women’s lives, or as an ultimately unattainable but banal practice, recent scholarship dem- onstrates a push towards what Maxine Leeds Craig (2006) calls a more ‘compli- cated’ stance, generating a new wave of work that not only takes an intersectional approach but also believes wholeheartedly that the ‘lure’ of beauty (Felski, 2006) deserves serious consideration in itself. From this perspective, beauty is also theorised as an experience that ‘does’ something and in that doing entangles every- day life in unexpected ways. This upholds Peggy Z. Brand’s claim in Beauty Matters that, ‘[f]or women, beauty has always mattered – in a personal way, and as an inevitable, and underlying socio-political framework, for how they operate in the world’ (2000: 5–6). This special issue takes this 
TI - Beauty, race and feminist theory in Latin America and the Caribbean
JO - Feminist Theory
DO - 10.1177/1464700113483233
DA - 2013-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/beauty-race-and-feminist-theory-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-kyckR0zxha
SP - 131
EP - 136
VL - 14
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -