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The global beauty industry : colorism, racism, and the national body /

By: Jha, Meeta Rani [author.].
Series: Framing 21st century social issues: Publisher: London : New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016Description: xi, 123 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781138188419; 9781138188419:; 1138188417; 9781138839434; 1138839434.Subject(s): Beauty contests | Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects | Beauty culture -- Social aspects | Sex role | Women -- Identity | Racism | NationalismDDC classification: 646.72 JHA
Contents:
Beauty as structural inequality: beauty, feminist protests, nationalism, neoliberal femininity -- Black is beautiful: anti-racist beauty aesthetics and cultural resistance -- Globalization, Indian beauty nationalism, and colorism: class, caste, and gender stratification -- Chinese femininity, beauty economy, cosmetic surgery -- A complex model of beauty.
Summary: 'The Global Beauty Industry' is an interdisciplinary text that uses beauty to explore topics of gender, race, class, colourism, nation, bodies, multiculturalism, transnationalism, and intersectionality. Integrating materials from a wide range of cultural and geo-political contexts, it coalesces with initiatives to produce more internationally relevant curricula in fields such as sociology, as well as cultural, women's/gender, media, and globalization studies.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 646.72 JHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0081696
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Beauty as structural inequality: beauty, feminist protests, nationalism, neoliberal femininity -- Black is beautiful: anti-racist beauty aesthetics and cultural resistance -- Globalization, Indian beauty nationalism, and colorism: class, caste, and gender stratification -- Chinese femininity, beauty economy, cosmetic surgery -- A complex model of beauty.

'The Global Beauty Industry' is an interdisciplinary text that uses beauty to explore topics of gender, race, class, colourism, nation, bodies, multiculturalism, transnationalism, and intersectionality. Integrating materials from a wide range of cultural and geo-political contexts, it coalesces with initiatives to produce more internationally relevant curricula in fields such as sociology, as well as cultural, women's/gender, media, and globalization studies.

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