There is now an entire shelf among the periodicals at my nearby chain bookstore filled with magazines that will give me five meditations or three coloring book pages or nine yoga retreats or fourteen farmhouse ideas or nineteen paper-crafting inspirations that, if purchased, will acculturate me to achievable “inner beauty.” Mind you, the consumption is always external and public. These are quite literally called “lifestyle” magazines, which begs the question “Whose lifestyle?” These are ways of expressing a kind of femininity, a kind of woman, for whom beauty is defined to selectively include
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