The Routledge companion to beauty politics / edited by Maxine Leeds Craig.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Craig, Maxine Leeds, editor.

Series:

Routledge companions.

Routledge companions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--Political aspects.

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (405 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2021.

Summary:

"The growth of the service economy, widespread acceptance of cosmetic technologies, expansion of global media, and the intensification of scrutiny of appearance brought about by the Internet have heightened the power of beauty ideals in everyday life. A range of interdisciplinary contributions by an international roster of established and emerging scholars will introduce students to the emergence of debates about beauty, including work in history, sociology, communications, anthropology, gender studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, cultural studies, philosophy, psychology, and law. The Routledge Companion to Beauty Politics is an essential reference work for students and researchers interested in the politics of appearance. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into 6 parts: Theorizing Beauty Politics Competing Definitions of Beauty Beauty, Activism, and Social Change Body Work Beauty and Labor Beauty and the Lifecourse The Routledge Companion to Beauty Politics is essential reading for students in Women and Gender Studies, Sociology, Media Studies, Communications, Philosophy and Psychology"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of contributors

PART ONE Theorizing beauty politics

1 Introduction

2 Neoliberal beauty

3 Beauty and class

4 Transnational feminist approaches to beauty

5 Philosophy and the politics of beauty

6 Picking your battles: beauty, complacency, and the other life of racism

PART TWO Competing definitions of beauty

7 Democratizing looks: the politics of gender, class, and beauty in early twentieth-century United States

8 Some's thin, some's voluptuous but they all fine : feminine beauty in Black publications 1827-1909

9 Colorism and the racial politics of beauty

10 Beauty, colorism, and anti-colorism in transnational India

11 Cross-cultural perspectives on body size

12 Beauty standards and body-image issues in the West and Japan from a cultural perspective

13 Body aesthetics &amp

beauty politics in twenty-first century Africa: case of the Sudan

14 Fantastic bodies: navigating ideals of beauty in cosplay

PART THREE Beauty, activism, and social change

15 The rise of disability aesthetics: reframing the relationship between disability, beauty, and art

16 "There is something chic about women wearing men's clothes": lesbian activists as fashionable women in the fight for queer rights in the United States, 1955-1972

17 Fat activism and beauty politics

18 Bumpah politics: the thick Black female body in US and Caribbean academic discourses

19 Rooted: on Black women, beauty, hair, and embodiment

20 "I do not see myself as anything else than white": Black resistance to racial cosplay blackfishing

21 The beautiful body in the age of #MeToo

PART FOUR Body work

22 Genital aesthetics.

23 Body hair removal: constructing the "baseline" for the normative gendered body in the contemporary Anglophone West

24 Negotiating "Islamic" beauty in Turkey, or conceptualizing the complex entanglements between beauty and religion

25 Botox and beauty politics

26 Orthodontics as expected beauty work

27 The body, cosmetic surgery and the discourse of "westernization of Korean bodies"

28 The racial politics of plastic surgery

PART FIVE Beauty and labor

29 Size matters (in modeling)

30 Tattooers at work: an emotional and permanent body labor

31 Beauty pageants and border crossings: the politics of class, cosmopolitanism, race, and place

32 Retail work, race, and aesthetic labor

33 Hourly beauty: aesthetic labor in China

PART SIX Beauty and the lifecourse

34 Girls and beauty (pageant) culture

35 The politics of looking old: older adults and the aging body

36 The incredible invisible woman: age, beauty, and the specter of identity

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-28373-3

1-000-41361-6

9780429283734

OCLC:

1257084512