Author : Claudia Liebelt,Sarah Böllinger,Ulf Vierke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319911748
Beauty and the Norm by Claudia Liebelt,Sarah Böllinger,Ulf Vierke Pdf
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.