Body work : beauty and self-image in American culture /
"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 wom...
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| Формат: | Licensed eBooks |
| Язык: | английский |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
2001.
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| Online-ссылка: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppv9p |
| Итог: | "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 |
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| Объем: | 1 online resource (x, 171 pages) |
| Библиография: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-163) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520926868 0520926862 0585466319 9780585466316 1597345067 9781597345064 9780520210516 0520210514 9780520228566 0520228561 |