Rubenesque
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"In much feminist fiction we find fat women, like the protagonists of Fay Weldon's The Fat Woman's Joke or of Muriel Spark's A Far Cry from Kensington. Feminist critics like Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar (1984) , Paulina Palmer ..."--Gender, I-deology: Essays on Theory, Fiction and Film (1996) by Chantal Cornut-Gentille D'Arcy, José Angel García Landa |
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"Rubenesque" is an auctorial descriptive which means plump and sensuous (referring to the figure of a woman).
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Etymology
From the women depicted in the paintings of Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640).
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Synonyms
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See also
- On ne doit presque pas se douter qu'un corps de femme renferme des os
- Did Europeans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries really idealize fat (Rubenesque) women?
- BBW
- Female body shape
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