EAN: 9783319911731

BEAUTY AND THE NORM GEBUNDEN

Recent decades have seen the rise of a global beauty boom  with profound effects on perceptions
of bodies worldwide. Against this background  Beauty and the Norm assembles ethnographic and
conceptual approaches from a variety of disciplines and across the globe to debate
standardization in bodily appearance. Its contributions range from empirical research to
exploratory conversations between scholars and personal reflections. Bridging hitherto separate
debates in critical beauty studies  cultural anthropology  sociology  the history of science 
disability studies  gender studies  and critical race studies  this volume reflects upon the
gendered  classed  and racialized body  normative regimes of representation  and the global
beauty economy.

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