ABSTRACT
The growth of the service economy, widespread acceptance of cosmetic technologies, expansion of global media, and the intensification of scrutiny of appearance brought about by the internet have heightened the power of beauty ideals in everyday life. A range of interdisciplinary contributions by an international roster of established and emerging scholars will introduce students to the emergence of debates about beauty, including work in history, sociology, communications, anthropology, gender studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, cultural studies, philosophy, and psychology.
The Routledge Companion to Beauty Politics is an essential reference work for students and researchers interested in the politics of appearance. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into six parts:
- Theorizing Beauty Politics
- Competing Definitions of Beauty
- Beauty, Activism, and Social Change
- Body Work
- Beauty and Labor
- Beauty and the Lifecourse
The Routledge Companion to Beauty Politics is essential reading for students in Women and Gender Studies, Sociology, Media Studies, Communications, Philosophy, and Psychology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|59 pages
Theorizing beauty politics
part Two|84 pages
Competing definitions of beauty
chapter 7|11 pages
Democratizing looks
chapter 8|11 pages
Some's thin, some's voluptuous but they all fine
chapter 13|10 pages
Body aesthetics & beauty politics in twenty-first century Africa
part Three|82 pages
Beauty, activism, and social change
chapter 15|10 pages
The rise of disability aesthetics
chapter 16|10 pages
“There is something chic about women wearing men's clothes”
chapter 18|9 pages
Bumpah politics
chapter 20|10 pages
“I do not see myself as anything else than white”
part Four|67 pages
Body work
chapter 23|9 pages
Body hair removal
part Five|52 pages
Beauty and labor
chapter 31|10 pages
Beauty pageants and border crossings
part Six|30 pages
Beauty and the lifecourse
