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Beauty Up
This engaging introduction to Japan's burgeoning beauty culture investigates a wide range of phenomenon—aesthetic salons, dieting products, male beauty activities, and beauty language—to find out why Japanese women and men are paying so much attention to their bodies. Laura Miller uses social science and popular culture sources to connect breast enhancements, eyelid surgery, body hair removal, nipple bleaching, and other beauty work to larger issues of gender ideology, the culturally-constructed nature of beauty ideals, and the globalization of beauty technologies and standards. Her sophisticated treatment of this timely topic suggests that new body aesthetics are not forms of \"deracializiation\" but rather innovative experimentation with identity management. While recognizing that these beauty activities are potentially a form of resistance, Miller also considers the commodification of beauty, exploring how new ideals and technologies are tying consumers even more firmly to an ever-expanding beauty industry. By considering beauty in a Japanese context, Miller challenges widespread assumptions about the universality and naturalness of beauty standards.
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Terrible and toxic makeup
\"Did you know that a Roman woman was executed in the 1600s for selling a poisonous lipstick that women kissed their husbands to death with? Or that women painted their teeth and nails with radium for a special glow? From Cleopatra to Carole Lombard, Madam C.J. Walker to Madame de Pompadour, Elizabeth I to Elizabeth Taylor, and geishas to flappers, the history of makeup has many exciting, and some deadly moments. This fascinating book is sure to attract fans of history and science. The history of entrepreneurship, commerce, and beauty standards give context to some of the most bizarre stories of beauty around.\"--Amazon.com.
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Glamour
This book explores the changing meanings of glamour, its relationship to femininity and fashion, and its place in twentieth century social history. It also examines with wit and insight the history and meaning of costume, cosmetics, perfume and fur.
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Black Beauty: Aesthetics, Stylization, Politics
Previous work discussing Black beauty has tended to concentrate on Black women's search for white beauty as a consequence of racialization. Without denying either the continuation of such aesthetics or their enduring power, this book uncovers the cracks in this hegemonic Black beauty. Drawing on detailed ethnographic research amongst British women of Caribbean heritage, this volume pursues a broad discussion of beauty within the Black diaspora contexts of the Caribbean, the UK, the United States and Latin America through different historical periods to the present day. With a unique exploration of beauty, race and identity politics, the author reveals how Black women themselves speak about, negotiate, inhabit, work on and perform Black beauty. As such, it will appeal not only to sociologists, but anyone working in the fields of race, ethnicity and post-colonial thought, feminism and the sociology of the body.
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The little book of skin care : Korean beauty secrets for healthy, glowing skin
It all starts with your skin! In Korea, healthy, glowing skin is the ideal form of beauty, achievable by anyone--and this skin-first philosophy has taken the world by storm. In this book, Charlotte Cho, of leading beauty/lifestyle website Soko Glam, guides you through the celebrated Korean ten-step skincare routine--and far beyond--for the clearest and most radiant skin of your life, with step-by-step tutorials, skin-care tips, advice on products at all price levels, and exclusive interviews with beauty experts around the world. You'll love pampering your skin at home and learning the secrets behind the \"no-makeup makeup\" look we've seen and admired on women in the streets of Seoul. With the knowledge of an expert and voice of a trusted friend, Charlotte's personal tour through Korean beauty culture will help you find joy in the everyday beauty routines that will transform your skin.-- Adapted from back cover.
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Unshaved
Body hair, especially on women, provokes, disrupts, and, at
times, offends. It is tangled up with culture itself-in art,
families, workplaces, relationships, sex, the beauty industry,
governments, and capitalism. From Chinese activists challenging the
Communist Party, to students in Arizona rejecting their family and
workplace ideas about grooming, to high-art feminist photographers
boldly featuring hairy women, Fahs deftly explores the volatile and
ever-changing landscape of women's body hair politics. She
showcases an underground movement of artists, zine-makers, rebels,
and activists who have used women's visible body hair as a
declaration of freedom from patriarchal norms.
Fahs presents body hair not just as a personal grooming choice
but as a connection to broader cultural stories about women's
reproductive rights, feminist battlegrounds about autonomy,
neoliberal intrusions into beauty regimens, and even global
tensions around women's place in society. Ultimately,
Unshaved shows the collision between the mundane and the
extraordinary, the everyday and the revolutionary.
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Face paint : the story of makeup
The \"exquisite and richly illustrated\" New York Times bestseller from the renowned makeup artist, \"a retrospective written for all women, everywhere\" ( Vogue France ).Makeup, as we know it, has only been commercially available in the last 100 years, but applying decoration to the face and body may be one of the oldest global social practices.
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