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Gulliver's Travels / Taxing Beauty

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: gender inequality, commodification, societal critique, beauty standards, irony  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-08

The women were proposed to be taxed according to their beauty and skill in dressing, wherein they had the same privilege with the men, to be determine...