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The goddess in the mirror : an anthropology of beauty / Tulasi Srinivas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Srinivas, Tulasi, author.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beauty, Personal--Social aspects--India--Bangalore.
- Beauty, Personal.
- Beauty, Personal--Political aspects--India--Bangalore.
- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--Social aspects--India--Bangalore.
- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics).
- Beauty shops--India--Bangalore.
- Beauty shops.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 275 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "In The Goddess in the Mirror, Tulasi Srinivas offers a pathbreaking ethnography of contemporary Indian beauty parlors in Bangalore. Exploring the gendered world of beauty in the intimate spaces of the salon, whose popularity has exploded amid an urban tech revolution, Srinivas invites us to consider what beauty is and what it does. Visiting diverse salons that cater to various classes, castes, and queer sexualities, she tracks the relationships between clients and workers, revealing the beauty industry's painful political, religious, and economic stakes. Embodiment, religion, and narrative intersect as clients and beauticians tell well-known stories of beautiful Hindu goddesses, heroines, queens, and apsaras, thereby weaving their own ethical subjectivities every day. Following the goddess' allure, radiance, woundedness, fluidity, and fertility, Srinivas situates ideas of beauty within a larger moral and political context where beauty is both a fleeting pursuit and a rich resource for navigating a patriarchal present"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Reverie
- Beauty, Myth, Recognition
- Alluring
- Radiant
- Hot
- Interlude: Nightmare
- Wounded
- Fortunate
- Fluid
- Mirrors and Masks: An Anthropology of Beauty
- Postlude: Dream.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Srinivas, Tulasi. Goddess in the mirror.
- ISBN:
- 9781478061502
- 1478061502
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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