UID:
almahu_9949386695002882
Format:
1 online resource. (xv, 388 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
1000413616
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9780429283734
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0429283733
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9781000413601
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1000413608
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9781000413618
Series Statement:
Routledge companions to gender
Content:
"The growth of the service economy, widespread acceptance of cosmetic technologies, expansion of global media, and the intensification of scrutiny of appearance brought about by the Internet have heightened the power of beauty ideals in everyday life. A range of interdisciplinary contributions by an international roster of established and emerging scholars will introduce students to the emergence of debates about beauty, including work in history, sociology, communications, anthropology, gender studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, cultural studies, philosophy, psychology, and law. The Routledge Companion to Beauty Politics is an essential reference work for students and researchers interested in the politics of appearance. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into 6 parts: Theorizing Beauty Politics Competing Definitions of Beauty Beauty, Activism, and Social Change Body Work Beauty and Labor Beauty and the Lifecourse The Routledge Companion to Beauty Politics is essential reading for students in Women and Gender Studies, Sociology, Media Studies, Communications, Philosophy and Psychology"--
Note:
Neoliberal Beauty / Rosalind Gill -- Beauty and Class / Helen Wood -- Transnational Feminist Approaches to Beauty / Oluwakemi M. Balogun and Gracia Dodds -- Philosophy and the Politics of Beauty / Monique Roelofs -- Picking Your Battles: Beauty, Complacency and the Other Life of Racism / Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa -- Democratizing Looks: The Politics of Gender, Class and Beauty in early 20th century United States / Einav Rabinovitch-Fox -- Some's Thin, Some's Voluptuous But They All Fine: Feminine Beauty in Black Publications 1827-1909 / Sabrina Strings -- Colorism and the Racial Politics of Beauty / Margaret Hunter -- Beauty, Colorism, and Anti-Colorism in Transnational India / Vanita Reddy -- Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Body Size / Viren Swami -- Beauty Standards and Body-Image Issues in the West and Japan from a Cultural Perspective / Yuko Yamamiya and Tomohiro Suzuki -- Body Aesthetics & Beauty Politics in 21st Century Africa: Case of the Sudan / Nada Mustafa Ali -- Fantastic Bodies: Navigating Ideals of Beauty in Cosplay / Erynn Masi de Casanova and Jeremy Brenner-Levoy -- The Rise of Disability Aesthetics: Reframing the Relationship between Disability, Beauty, and Art / Ann M. Fox -- "There is Something Chic about Women Wearing Men's Clothes": Lesbian Activists as Fashionable Women in the Fight for the Rights of Sexual Minorities in the United States, 1955-1972 / Malia McAndrew -- Fat Activism and Beauty Politics / Carla A. Pfeffer -- Bumpah Politics: The Thick Black Female Body in the US and Caribbean Academic Discourses / Kamille Gentles-Peart -- Rooted: On Black Women, Beauty, Hair and Embodiment / Kristin Denise Rowe -- I do not see myself as anything else than white: Black resistance to racial cosplay blackfishing / Shirley A. Tate -- The Beautiful Body in the Age of #metoo / Bernadette Wegenstein -- Genital Aesthetics / Eric Plemons -- Body hair removal: Constructing the 'baseline' for the normative gendered body in the contemporary Anglophone West / Melisa Trujillo -- Negotiating "Islamic" Beauty in Turkey, or Conceptualizing the Complex Entanglements Between Beauty and Religion / Claudia Liebelt -- Botox and Beauty Politics / Dana Berkowitz -- Orthodontics as Expected Beauty Work / Maxine Leeds Craig -- Cosmetic Surgery and the discourse of Westernization of Korean Bodies / Jo Elfving-Hwang -- The Racial Politics of Plastic Surgery / Alexander Edmonds and So Yeon Leem -- Size Matters (In Modeling) / Amanda M. Czerniawski -- Tattooers at Work: An Emotional and Permanent Body Labor / Dustin Kiskaddon -- Beauty Pageants and Border Crossings: The Politics of Class, Cosmopolitanism, Race and Place / Karen Tice -- Retail Work, Race and Aesthetic Labor / Kyla Walters -- Hourly Beauty: Aesthetic Labor in China / Eileen Otis -- Girls and Beauty (Pageant) Culture / Hilary L. Levey Friedman -- The Politics of Looking Old: Older Adults and the Aging Body / Laura Hurd -- The Incredible Invisible Woman: Age, Beauty and the Specter of Identity / Brenda Weber.
Additional Edition:
Print version: The Routledge companion to beauty politics Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. ISBN 9780367246570
Language:
English
Keywords:
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URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429283734
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