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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書誌詳細
第一著者: Gimlin, Debra L., 1967-
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: Berkeley : University of California Press 2001.
オンライン・アクセス:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppv9p
目次:
  • 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.