Complicating Beauty: A Look at How Women Look

“Complicating Beauty: A Look at How Women Look” is a Pembroke Center virtual panel featuring five distinguished Brown alumnae and faculty who explore the idea of beauty: how and why it changes over time; the unique role of the beauty pageant; and the ways that society’s morphing definitions of “a beautiful woman” collide with race, class and gender.

Sociologist Hilary Levey Friedman, visiting assistant professor of education at Brown, is the author of the book “Here She Is: The Complicated Reign of the Beauty Pageant in America.” Friedman is joined by Marjon Carlos ’05, a journalist, editorial director and former Senior Fashion Writer at Vogue.com, where her work explored the intersection of style and culture; Kathy Peiss ’77 AM, ’82 PhD, a scholar of gender and sexuality and the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols professor of American history at the University of Pennsylvania; and Deborah Saint-Vil ’10, who was Miss Rhode Island 2010, and has been a judge in the Miss America Organization. Marcia R. Ely ’80, director of programs at the Center for Brooklyn History and a Pembroke Center Advisory Council member, moderates.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Pembroke Center and the Pembroke Center Advisory Council.

January 12, 2021
Brown University

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