Campanella punished artificial beautification with the death penalty in his utopia

Evidence

Because women in the City of the Sun would work and retain excellent bodily health and strength through exercise and military training, they would not “lose their color and have pale complex ions and become feeble and small” as did the women of leisured sixteenth-century society. Norms for beauty were strength, agility, and tallness rather than the use of facial rouge, “high-heeled boots,” and “garments with trains” in common usage in the real world. Although natural beauty was emphasized over artificial trappings, Campanella was too fanatic about its importance: women who used such artificial methods to attain beauty were “condemned to capital punishment.” — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 409

Categorization

• CANDY: A utopia prescribing strength and tallness as beauty norms while executing anyone using rouge or high heels — darkly funny and retellable.
• XREF: Sits within the polyad via the ecofeminist attention to how body norms encode social power — artificiality punished as assault on communal natural order.