Beauty and the Norm Debating Standardization in Bodily Appearance /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Liebelt, Claudia (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Böllinger, Sarah (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Vierke, Ulf (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Globalization and Embodiment
• Subjects: Cultural studies.; Ethnicity.; Human body-Social aspects.; Mass media.; Communication.; Racism in the social sciences.; Sociology.; Cultural Studies.; Ethnicity Studies.; Sociology of the Body.; Media Sociology.; Sociology of Racism.; Gender Studies.

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 ap...