While some women do their best to play by the rules, others find loopholes in social customs through which they can enact a semblance of autonomy. However, doing so is extremely risky, especially for those lower on the social ladder.
While some women do their best to play by the rules, others find loopholes in social customs through which they can enact a semblance of autonomy. However, doing so is extremely risky, especially for those lower on the social ladder.
So the society’s power structures were super patriarchal, and the makeup was tied to power, but there wasn’t even a tangential relationship there?
You got a source for that claim that the women thrust it on themselves?
And even if that’s 100% correct, just because some hypothetical woman was an ancient tastemaker doesn’t mean that the women who were sold into concubinage had any say in the way they were expected to present themselves in society.
Patriarchy is the wrong word to describe it. It’s no different than men taking risky jobs in order to make more money in an attempt to be more attractive.
Beauty and attraction have fads and at that time pasty white makeup was the trend for rich women. It had nothing to do with patriarchy.
That society as a whole was super sexist and awful but makeup wasn’t part of it.