Introduction: the gender ideology of the aesthetic 1. She has a lovely face: the feminine and the aesthetic 2. I knew the beauty of her: aestheticism, fleshliness and resistance 3. Hidden just behind those screens: art objects and commodities 4. A sort of live picture: woman and the aesthetic craze 5. The girl never really lived: decadent beauty in the 1890s Afterword Notes Works cited Index.
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Bullen et al. (2000) studied this question.