Images of perfectly smooth skin in advertisements, films, and magazines created unattainable standards that women felt pressured to achieve. As a result, removing body hair became a ritual tied ...

Many of his subjects were fashionable, bourgeois women, whom he depicted in an array of settings that reflected the many facets of modern life in the late 19th century. In brightly colored ...

The challenges of modern womanhood are powering a blood-spattered resurgence in one of cinema's goriest genres. New female-focused "body horror" movies have tackled everything from unrealistic ...