Body work : beauty and self-image in American culture /
Debra L. Gimlin.
Bok Engelsk 2001 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Berkeley : : University of California Press, , 2001.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (182 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Body Work as Self Work; 1. The Hair Salon: Social Class, Power, and Ideal Beauty; 2. Aerobics: Neutralizing the Body and Renegotiating the Self; 3. Cosmetic Surgery: Paying for Your Beauty; 4. NAAFA: Reinterpreting the Fat Body; Conclusion: The Body, Oppression, and Resistance; Notes; Index;. - Today women are lifting weights to build muscle, wrapping their bodies in seaweed to reduce unwanted water retention, attending weigh-ins at diet centers, and devoting themselves to many other types of ""body work."" Filled with the voices of real women, this book unravels the complicated emotional and intellectual motivations that drive them as they confront American culture's unreachable beauty ideals. This powerful feminist study lucidly and compellingly argues against the idea that the popularity of body work means that women are enslaved to a male-fashioned ""beauty myth."" Essential read
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| ISBN | 0-520-21051-4. - 0-520-92686-2. - 1-282-75891-8. - 1-59734-506-7. - 9786612758911
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| Hylleplass | 111087027172466
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