232 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
232 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
Beauty: Gendered Perspectives examines beauty as a social force that shapes bodies, identities, and everyday life. Taking a gendered approach, it explores how beauty norms are produced, enforced, and contested across contemporary culture.
From hair and dress to thinness, cosmetic surgery, and online beauty culture, this volume traces the historical and social forces that have made particular... Read more
Introduction: What Lies Beyond the Beauty Myth?; 1. The Many Ways to Critically Think About Beauty; 2. Good Hair and Its Critics; 3. Clothes Make Us; 4. Whatever Happened to Being Skinny?; 5. The Forbidden Love of Plastic; 6. Digital Beauties: The New Frontiers of Beauty Work; Beauty, Women, and Gender: More of the Same, Same of the More?
Biography
Jaita Talukdar is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and former co-chair for the Women’s and Gender Studies program at Loyola University, New Orleans, USA.
