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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| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
2001.
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppv9p |
| Tóm tắt: | "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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| Mô tả vật lý: | 1 online resource (x, 171 pages) |
| Thư mục: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-163) and index. |
| số ISBN: | 9780520926868 0520926862 0585466319 9780585466316 1597345067 9781597345064 9780520210516 0520210514 9780520228566 0520228561 |