Beauty and the Norm Debating Standardization in Bodily Appearance /

Recent decades have seen the rise of a global beauty boom, with profound effects on perceptions of bodies worldwide. Against this background, Beauty and the Norm assembles ethnographic and conceptual approaches from a variety of disciplines and across the globe to debate standardization in bodily ap...

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Müşterek Yazar: SpringerLink (Online service)
Diğer Yazarlar: Liebelt, Claudia (Editör), Böllinger, Sarah (Editör), Vierke, Ulf (Editör)
Materyal Türü: e-Kitap
Dil:İngilizce
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Cham : Springer International Publishing : 2019.
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Edisyon:1st ed. 2019.
Seri Bilgileri:Palgrave Studies in Globalization and Embodiment,
Konular:
Culture > Study and teaching.
Race.
Human body > Social aspects.
Mass media.
Sex.
Cultural Studies.
Race and Ethnicity Studies.
Sociology of the Body.
Media Sociology.
Gender Studies.
Online Erişim:Full-text access
İçindekiler:
  • 1. Introduction: Changing Beauty: Doing and Undoing Norms
  • 2. Stephan Bibrowski, The "Lion Man," And The Changing Face Of Normative Middle-Class Masculinity In Bohemia Around 1900
  • 3. Quantifying Beauty: How Bathroom Scales Shaped Aesthetic Norms In The Dutch Interbellum
  • 4. Debating Bodily Standardization In The Global Beauty Boom/A Conversation
  • 5. From Freak To Quirk Model: The Spectacularization Of The Albinotic Body
  • 6. Prabuddha Dasgupta's Alternative Indian Advertising Beauties
  • 7. Broken Beauty, Broken Cups: Disabled Bodies In Contemporary African Art
  • 8. "Disability Gain" And the Limits Of Representing Alternative Beauty / A Conversation
  • 9. Fashioning the Female Muslim Body: From "Hiding Beauty" To "Managing Beauty"
  • 10. Being Fat, But How? On The Material and Interactional Co-Constitution Of Self-Perception In Weight Watchers Meetings And The Fat Acceptance Movement In Germany
  • 11. Reshaping "Turkish" Breasts And Noses: On Cosmetic Surgery, Normative Femininities, And Bodily Autonomy
  • 12. Conversation On Rose: A Performative Installation
  • 13. Body Beautiful: Comparative Meanings Of Beauty In South Africa, Brazil And Jamaica
  • 14. "In This Country, Beauty Is Defined By Fairness Of Skin." On Skin Color Politics, Beauty Practices And Social Stratification In India
  • 15. De-Centering Caucasian Whiteness
  • 16. Skin Color Politics and the White Beauty Standard / A Conversation. .

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