Aesthetic labour : rethinking beauty politics in neoliberalism /: rethinking beauty politics in neoliberalism. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ana Sofia Elias, Rosalind Gill, Christina Scharff, editors.
• Editors: Elias, Ana Sofia; Gill, Rosalind (Rosalind Clair); Scharff, Christina
• Contents: Aesthetic labour : beauty politics in neoliberalism / Ana Elias, Rosalind Gill, and Christina Scharff -- "Seriously girly fun!" : recontextualising aesthetic labour as fun and play in cosmetics advertising / Michelle M. Lazar -- Rethinking Ruskin's wife's vulva / Virginia Braun -- Mapping "gross" bodies : the regulatory politics of disgust / Breanne Fahs -- The escalating price of motherhood : aesthetic labour in popular representations of "stay-at-home" mothers / Sara De Benedictis and Shani Orgad -- Holistic labour : gender, body and the beauty and wellness industry in China / Jie Yang -- The entrepreneurial practices of becoming a doll / Adrienne Evans and Sarah Riley -- PhD Barbie gets a makeover! : aesthetic labour in academia / Scarlett Brown -- The risky business of postfeminist beauty / Simidele Dosekun -- Dream jobs? : the glamourisation of beauty service work in media culture / Laurie Ouellette -- Skin : post-feminist bleaching culture and the political vulnerability of blackness / Shirley Anne Tate -- "Being a better #freelancer" : gendered and racialised aesthetic labour on online freelance marketplaces / Monika Sengul-Jones -- Seriously stylish : academic femininities and the politics of feminism and fashion in academia / Ngaire Donaghue -- How to do feminist mothering in urban India? : some reflections on the politics of beauty and body shapes / Shilpa Phadke -- "I'm beautiful the way I am" : empowerment, beauty, and aesthetic labour / Sarah Banet-Weiser -- "Just be confident girls!" : confidence chic as neoliberal governmentality / Laura Favaro -- "The bottom line is that the problem is you" : aesthetic labour, postfeminism and subjectivity in Russian self-help literature / Maria Adamson and Suvi Salmenniemi -- Look good, feel good : sexiness and sexual pleasure in neoliberalism / Rachel Wood -- The aesthetics of sexual discontent : notes from the London "seduction community" / Rachel O'Neill -- Invisible labour? : tensions and ambiguities of modifying the "private" body : the case of female genital cosmetic surgery / Amy Shields Dobson, Karalyn McDonald, Maggie Kirkman, Kay Souter, and Jane Fisher -- Beautiful Israeli girls : between being in the present and future unpredictability / Dana Kaplan.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 305.42; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics); Beauty culture -- Social aspects; Human body -- Social aspects; Women -- Social conditions; Neoliberalism; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference; Society; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics); Human body -- Social aspects; Neoliberalism; Women -- Social conditions; Political Science and International Relations; Political Theory; Social Structure, Social Inequality; Sociology of Work; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137477651; 1137477652
• Related ISBNs: 9781137477644; 1137477644
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.