Perfect Me: Understanding the Beauty Ideal
Offered By: University of Birmingham via FutureLearn
Course Description
Overview
Learn how and why a global beauty ideal has been created
The quest to look beautiful, or just ‘good enough’, is something that drives and dominates people all over the world. The rise of body image anxiety has become a global epidemic and the need to be perfect or be better is becoming an ethical requirement.
On this course, you will discover the features and differences of the emerging global beauty ideal. You will explore the role of ‘normal’ and how beauty as an ethical ideal defines the way you view yourself and others. You will also look to the future and learn how the rising demands of beauty can be addressed in a more positive way.
This course is for anyone interested in or studying beauty ideals and practices or global ethics.
Taught by
Heather Widdows
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