QUEER BODIES
Beauty is only skin deep; or so goes the saying, implying as it does that true beauty lies within.
This maxim was the work of Sir Thomas Overbury who waxed lyrical about the manifold charms of his wife in a poem written in 1613. Renaissance man Overbury was writing at a time when women who today would be fat-shamed were favoured. In other words, he believed a woman’s beauty was greater than the sum of her parts. If only.