Editors:
- Presents a well-rounded, nuanced, and cutting-edge discussion of the globalization of beauty
- Engages with concepts of beauty using case studies from around the globe
- Locates beauty ideals and ideas within larger discussions of disability, race, feminism, art and media representations, and bodily politics
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Globalization and Embodiment (PSGE)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Representations of ‘Alternative’ Beauty
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Fashioning the Muslim Female Body
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Skin Colour Politics
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Back Matter
About this book
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, cultural anthropology, sociology, the history of science, disability studies, gender studies, and critical race studies, this volume reflects upon the gendered, classed, and racialized body, normative regimes of representation, and the global beauty economy.
Keywords
- beauty norms
- global beauty market
- Western beauty ideals
- Caucasian beauty ideals
- alternative beauty
- transnational beauty cultures
- beautification
- racialized bodies
- queering beauty
- global beauty boom
- politics of beauty
- normative masculinity
- cultural contexts
- aesthetic norms
- bodily standardization
- fat acceptance
- disabled bodies
- cosmetic surgery
- transgender beauty
- feminism
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Claudia Liebelt, Sarah Böllinger, Ulf Vierke
About the editors
Claudia Liebelt, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology at Bayreuth University, Germany. Her primary research interests are gender, beauty and body aesthetics, intimate labor, embodiment, and Islam in Turkey.
Sarah Böllinger, M.A., is Ph.D. Candidate and Junior Fellow of the International Graduate School of African Studies at Bayreuth University, Germany. She is the director of becks, the administrative department for disabled and chronically ill students.
Ulf Vierke, Ph.D., is Director of Iwalewahaus, the Museum for Contemporary African Arts, at Bayreuth University, Germany. He also acts as the Head of DEVA, the Digital Research Archive of African Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beauty and the Norm
Book Subtitle: Debating Standardization in Bodily Appearance
Editors: Claudia Liebelt, Sarah Böllinger, Ulf Vierke
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Globalization and Embodiment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91174-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-91173-1Published: 07 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08191-1Published: 08 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-91174-8Published: 24 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2945-7750
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7769
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 308
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cultural Studies, Ethnicity Studies, Sociology of the Body, Media Sociology, Sociology of Racism, Gender Studies