Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 171 pages)
ISBN:
9780520926868
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0520926862
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0585466319
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9780585466316
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1597345067
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9781597345064
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9780520210516
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0520210514
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9780520228566
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0520228561
Inhalt:
"Beautifully written, cleverly argued, and skillfully researched, Debra Gimlin's Body Work goes beyond the argument that the beauty industry exists only to control women. Instead, Gimlin examines women's relationship to beauty from a feminist sociological perspective, finding that women are not dupes of the beauty industry but rather use body work in both empowering and degrading ways. It's about time a sociologist delved into women's complicated relationship to the beauty industry!"--Verta Taylor, author of Rock-a-By Baby: Feminism, Self-Help, and Postpartum Depression"This fascinating study r
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-163) and index
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Introduction : body work as self work
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The hair salon : social class, power, and ideal beauty
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Aerobics : neutralizing the body and renegotiating the self
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Cosmetic surgery : paying for your beauty
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NAAFA : reinterpreting the fat body - Conclusion : the body, oppression, and resistance.
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gimlin, Debra L., 1967- Body work Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001 ISBN 0520210514
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Ethnologie
