Format:
X, 285 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781137299703
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1137299703
Series Statement:
Worlds of consumption
Content:
Beauty matters. Throughout the world, more and more people from all walks of life spend time and money to make themselves beautiful because beauty expresses identity and shapes status and success. Whether white or black, male or female, young or old, gay or straight, working- or middle-class, Western or non-Western, democratic or fascist, people everywhere have adopted a central maxim of the twentieth century: everyone can be beautiful, and everyone should become beautiful. This volume tracks the historical roots and meanings of modern beauty cultures in the twentieth century, drawing on examples from Europe, North America, the Near East, Asia, and Africa
Note:
"It makes princes of those who have it" : beauty and consumerism in the twentieth century
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Cosmopolitan attempts in interwar Europe. Miss Germany, Miss Europe, Miss Universe : beauty pageants in the popular media of the Weimar Republic
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Appropriations and agency in Africa and Asia. Contesting beauty concepts in precolonial and colonial Kenya : hierarchy, resistance, and identity
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
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Ethnology
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Philosophy
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Sociology
Keywords:
Schönheitsideal
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Körper
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Mode
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Kosmetik
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Konsumgesellschaft
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Verbraucherverhalten
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Geschichte 1900-2000
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Berghoff, Hartmut 1960-
Author information:
Kühne, Thomas 1958-
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