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Unapologetic Beauty JOANNA AT SEVENTY, 2018 Unapologetic Beauty JOANNA FRUEH PHOTOGRAPHY BY FRANCES MURRAY UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS MINNEAPOLIS // LONDON Text copyright 2019 by Joanna Frueh Except as noted, all photographs in this book were taken by Frances Murray; copyright 2019 Frances Murray. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu ISBN 978-1-5179-0655-9 (hc) ISBN 978-1-5179-0656-6 (pb) A Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Kathleen Williamson —JF For my parents, Thomas and Jane Murray, my husband, Harold Jones, and my twin daughters, Becky Jones and Star Klein —FM Contents 1 An Art of Friendship 87 Beauty Redefined 25 Culture’s Breasts I 97 The Pleasure of Pleasing Ourselves 33 Culture’s Breasts II 109 Language 51 My Breasts 115 The 4 Cs of Creating Beauty 59 Apology 121 Acknowledgments 67 Hyperbeauty 122 Notes 79 Beauty Heroes Friendship AN ART OF FRANCES IS A PHOTOGRAPHER, AND I AM A WRITER. She is known for her elegant nudes and my writings are known for exploring beauty and the body. We are great confidantes and playmates, and our friendship is proven, through thick and thin. We count on each other and feel safe together, and from the generosity, trust, exuberance, and delight at the heart of our friendship comes the collaborative strength to discover and develop a new language of beauty that we call unapologetic beauty. Our desire to comfort and hearten people is a major impetus for our project. Unapologetic Beauty is a guidebook that welcomes people into new ways of seeing and talking about female beauty—ahas! of under- standing and sighs of relief. It is equally an educational tool and a healing manual. The text and pictures work together to lift readers out of the abyss of imperfections and never-enoughs that the beauty ideal imposes. We present ways to reimagine, so that girls and women can envision, create, and be at ease in their own uniquely unapologetic beauty. In Frances’s and my collaboration, beauty is unapologetically peaceful, happy, playful, brave, relaxed, seductive, pensive, and exhilarated. 1
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