Beauty and the Norm

by Sarah Böllinger, Ulf Vierke, Claudia Liebelt

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 appearance. Its contributions range from empirical research to exploratory conversations between scholars and personal reflections. Bridging hitherto separate debates in critical beauty studies, cultura

ISBN: 9783319911731

308 pages

Published: 2018-09-07

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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