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Beauty and the Norm

Debating Standardization in Bodily Appearance - Previously published in hardcover
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
308 Seiten
Englisch
Springererschienen am08.02.2019Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2019
Bridging hitherto separate debates in critical beauty studies, cultural anthropology, sociology, the history of science, disability studies, gender studies, and critical race studies, this volume reflects upon the gendered, classed, and racialized body, normative regimes of representation, and the global beauty economy.mehr
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KlappentextBridging hitherto separate debates in critical beauty studies, cultural anthropology, sociology, the history of science, disability studies, gender studies, and critical race studies, this volume reflects upon the gendered, classed, and racialized body, normative regimes of representation, and the global beauty economy.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-030-08191-1
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2019
Erscheinungsdatum08.02.2019
AuflageSoftcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2019
ReihePalgrave Studies in Globalization and Embodiment
Seiten308 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht430 g
IllustrationenXX, 308 p. 17 illus.
Artikel-Nr.52429824

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.mehr

Schlagworte

Autor

Claudia Liebelt, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology at Bayreuth University, Germany. Her primary research interests are gender, beauty and body aesthetics, intimate labor, embodiment, and Islam in Turkey.

Sarah Böllinger, M.A., is Ph.D. Candidate and Junior Fellow of the International Graduate School of African Studies at Bayreuth University, Germany. She is the director of becks, the administrative department for disabled and chronically ill students.

Ulf Vierke, Ph.D., is Director of Iwalewahaus, the Museum for Contemporary African Arts, at Bayreuth University, Germany. He also acts as the Head of DEVA, the Digital Research Archive of African Studies.
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