Beauty and the norm : debating standardization in bodily appearance /: debating standardization in bodily appearance. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Claudia Liebelt, Sarah Böllinger, Ulf Vierke.
• Editors: Liebelt, Claudia; Böllinger, Sarah; Vierke, Ulf
• Contents: I. Introduction: Changing Beauty: Doing and Undoing Norms2. Stephan Bibrowski, The "Lion Man, " And The Changing Face Of Normative Middle-Class Masculinity In Bohemia Around 19003. Quantifying Beauty: How Bathroom Scales Shaped Aesthetic Norms In The Dutch Interbellum4. Debating Bodily Standardization In The Global Beauty Boom/A ConversationPart I. Mediatizing Beauty: Representing 'Alternative' Beauty5. From Freak To Quirk Model: The Spectacularization Of The Albinotic Body6. Prabuddha Dasgupta's Alternative Indian Advertising Beauties7. Broken Beauty, Broken Cups: Disabled Bodies In Contemporary African Art8. 'Disability Gain' And the Limits Of Representing Alternative Beauty / A ConversationPart II. Beauty As Self-Fashioning: Aesthetic Practices And Subjectivities9. Fashioning the Female Muslim Body: From 'Hiding Beauty' To 'Managing Beauty'10. Being Fat, But How? On The Material and Interactional Co-Constitution Of Self-Perception In Weight Watchers Meetings And The Fat Acceptance Movement In Germany11. Reshaping "Turkish" Breasts And Noses: On Cosmetic Surgery, Normative Femininities, And Bodily Autonomy12. Conversation On Rose: A Performative InstallationPart III. Beauty Politics: Decentering The 'White Beauty' Standard13. Body Beautiful: Comparative Meanings Of Beauty In South Africa, Brazil And Jamaica14. "In This Country, Beauty Is Defined By Fairness Of Skin." On Skin Color Politics, Beauty Practices And Social Stratification In India15. De-Centering Caucasian Whiteness16. Skin Color Politics and the White Beauty Standard / A Conversation.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 306.4613; Body image; Body image -- Social aspects; Beauty culture
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319911748
• Related ISBNs: 9783319911731
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