Crafting allure : beauty culture and identity / edited by Jacque Lynn Foltyn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Foltyn, Jacque Lynn, editor.

Series:

Critical issues (Oxford, England)

Critical Issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2014]

Summary:

Crafting Allure: Beauty, Culture, and Identity explores the complexity of physical beauty in eleven chapters, in four parts: Fashioning Beauty Cultures, Beauty Workers, Racialising Beauty, and Beauty in Architecture and Allegory.

Contents:

Preliminary material / Jacque Lynn Foltyn

The Image and the Invoice: Fashionable Consumption in the Eighteenth Century / Alexandra Meyer

Fashion and Beautification in India: Expression of Individuality / Dolly Kumar

The ‘Beauty’ of Eating Disorders / Lisa Hodge

The Silent Saleswomen: Mannequins, Visual Merchandising and Beauty for Sale / Jo Wiltshire Tidy

The Dislocation of Retail Beauty Workers: A Case Study / Guat Im Bok

Renaissance Concepts of Beauty and the Spanish Approach towards the Natives of the New World in the Sixteenth Century / Alex Kerner

Black Beauty Politics and the Afro-Modern French Woman / Sarah Fila-Bakabadio

The Somatechnics of Hair Straightening / Allison Vandenberg

Digital Beauty: Screening Black Hair in Cyberspace / Ayana Haaruun and Melodye Watson

On the Figure of Nature in the Aesthetics Edifice of Architecture / Amir Ameri

Beauty, Truth and Ugliness in Visual Arguments / Menashe Schwed.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-84888-299-8

OCLC:

975307096

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848882997 DOI