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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Xehetasun bibliografikoak
Egile nagusia: Gimlin, Debra L., 1967-
Formatua: Licensed eBooks
Hizkuntza:ingelesa
Argitaratua: Berkeley : University of California Press 2001.
Sarrera elektronikoa:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppv9p
Aurkibidea:
  • 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.