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Beauty up : exploring contemporary Japanese body aesthetics / Laura Miller.
LIBRA GT497.J3 M55 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Laura, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human body--Social aspects--Japan.
- Human body.
- Beauty, Personal--Japan.
- Beauty, Personal.
- Beauty culture--Japan.
- Beauty culture.
- Body image--Japan.
- Body image.
- Philosophy, Japanese.
- Human body--Social aspects.
- Japan--Social life and customs.
- Japan.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- Laura Miller investigates the burgeoning western-style beauty industry in Japan, focusing on the dramatic attention Japanese (primarily though not exclusively) young women give to their bodies.
- Contents:
- Introduction: approaches to body aesthetics and the beauty system
- Changing beauty ideology
- Aesthetic salons
- Mammary mania
- Body fashion and beauty etiquette
- Male beauty work
- The well-behaved appetite
- The language of esute
- Esute power.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-239) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520245083
- 0520245091
- OCLC:
- 60603226
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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