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Ilene Beckermanauthor of "What We Do for Love" and "Love, Loss, and What I Wore"Natalia Ilyin forever puts to rest the theory of the "dumb blonde." This very witty, very wise book reads as if Mae West, RuPaul, Princess Diana, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and I all had Freud on the couch and were trying to explain to him why he should "lighten up."
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In this unsparing and witty look at our cultural obsession with blonde, Natalia Ilyin shows us that our apparently modern fixation has truly primeval roots. She cites ancient myths, Hollywood iconography and advertising. When a woman decides to go blonde she is deciding to stand for something, but what? The author traces the power of the blonde to its primeval goddess origins and offers explanations of they have evolved into the blondes we know today. The text highlights cultural criticism with personal experience to reveal why the allure of being a blonde has crossed the boundaries of ethnicity, economics and age.
Ilene Beckermanauthor of "What We Do for Love" and "Love, Loss, and What I Wore"Natalia Ilyin forever puts to rest the theory of the "dumb blonde." This very witty, very wise book reads as if Mae West, RuPaul, Princess Diana, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and I all had Freud on the couch and were trying to explain to him why he should "lighten up."
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In this unsparing and witty look at our cultural obsession with blonde, Natalia Ilyin shows us that our apparently modern fixation has truly primeval roots. She cites ancient myths, Hollywood iconography and advertising. When a woman decides to go blonde she is deciding to stand for something, but what? The author traces the power of the blonde to its primeval goddess origins and offers explanations of they have evolved into the blondes we know today. The text highlights cultural criticism with personal experience to reveal why the allure of being a blonde has crossed the boundaries of ethnicity, economics and age.
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