TY  - GEN
T1  - Body work : beauty and self-image in American culture
A1  - Gimlin, Debra L., 1967-
LA  - English
PP  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 2001
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm52859403
AB  - "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
OP  - 171
CN  - HQ1220.U5 G56 2001eb
SN  - 9780520926868
SN  - 0520926862
SN  - 0585466319
SN  - 9780585466316
SN  - 1597345067
SN  - 9781597345064
SN  - 9780520210516
SN  - 0520210514
SN  - 9780520228566
SN  - 0520228561
KW  - Beauty, Personal : Social aspects : United States.
KW  - Beauty culture : Social aspects : United States.
KW  - Beauté corporelle : Aspect social : États-Unis.
KW  - Soins de beauté : Aspect social : États-Unis.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Policy : Cultural Policy.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Popular Culture.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Gender Studies.
KW  - Beauty, Personal : Social aspects
KW  - United States
ER  -