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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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
2001.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppv9p |
Table of 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.