| Description |
1 online resource (x, 171 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : body work as self work -- 1. The hair salon : social class, power, and ideal beauty -- 2. Aerobics : neutralizing the body and renegotiating the self -- 3. Cosmetic surgery : paying for your beauty -- 4. NAAFA : reinterpreting the fat body -- Conclusion : the body, oppression, and resistance |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-163) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects -- United States
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Beauty culture -- Social aspects -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
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Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| 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 |
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