Participant Info
- First Name
- Jaina
- Last Name
- Hunt
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- jaina.hunt@port.ac.uk
- Affiliation
- University of Portsmouth
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Early modern, women, beauty, singlehood
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a PhD candidate at the University of Portsmouth, researching single women and beauty in Tudor England. My project examines the lives of elite never-married women between, drawing on sources such as letters, medical texts, portraits, and printed literature. I am particularly interested in how beauty shaped women’s opportunities and limitations, and how they expressed agency within these constraints.
By engaging with current theories of pretty privilege, my research highlights the long history of society’s tendency to reward or disadvantage women based on appearance, offering insights that continue to resonate in discussions of gender and beauty standards today.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- England
- Expertise by Geography
- British Isles
- Expertise by Chronology
- Pre-17th century, 17th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Medicine, Women
