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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Detaylı Bibliyografya
Yazar: Gimlin, Debra L., 1967-
Materyal Türü: Licensed eBooks
Dil:İngilizce
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Berkeley : University of California Press 2001.
Online Erişim:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppv9p
İçindekiler:
  • 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.