Beauty and the Norm Debating Standardization in Bodily Appearance /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Liebelt, Claudia (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Böllinger, Sarah (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Vierke, Ulf (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Studies in Globalization and Embodiment
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Changing Beauty: Doing and Undoing Norms
• 2. Stephan Bibrowski, The "Lion Man," And The Changing Face Of Normative Middle-Class Masculinity In Bohemia Around 1900
• 3. Quantifying Beauty: How Bathroom Scales Shaped Aesthetic Norms In The Dutch Interbellum
• 4. Debating Bodily Standardization In The Global Beauty Boom/A Conversation
• 5. From Freak To Quirk Model: The Spectacularization Of The Albinotic Body
• 6. Prabuddha Dasgupta's Alternative Indian Advertising Beauties
• 7. Broken Beauty, Broken Cups: Disabled Bodies In Contemporary African Art
• 8. "Disability Gain" And the Limits Of Representing Alternative Beauty / A Conversation
• 9. 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 Germany
• 11. Reshaping "Turkish" Breasts And Noses: On Cosmetic Surgery, Normative Femininities, And Bodily Autonomy
• 12. Conversation On Rose: A Performative Installation
• 13. Body Beautiful: Comparative Meanings Of Beauty In South Africa, Brazil And Jamaica
• 14. "In This Country, Beauty Is Defined By Fairness Of Skin." On Skin Color Politics, Beauty Practices And Social Stratification In India
• 15. De-Centering Caucasian Whiteness
• 16. Skin Color Politics and the White Beauty Standard / A Conversation. .