Philosophy Bites
Philosophy Bites
Edmonds and Warburton
Heather Widdows on the Beauty Ideal
19 minutes Posted Oct 11, 2026 at 10:00 am.
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Which physical characteristics does a woman have to have to be considered beautiful? Are there many different cultural variations on this? Heather Widdows, author of Perfect Me, thinks that today there is a single set of charactestics and that pressure to conform with these has pernicious effects.