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Heather Widdows, Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press (2018), ISBN: 978-0-691-160078 (HC)

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Heather Widdows, Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press (2018), ISBN: 978-0-691-160078 (HC)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2021

Peg Brand Weiser

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Hypatia Reviews Online , Volume 2019 , 2019 , E30
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