Beauty and the Norm
Debating Standardization in Bodily Appearance
Editors: Liebelt, Claudia, Böllinger, Sarah, Vierke, Ulf (Eds.)
Free Preview- 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
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Beauty and the Norm: An Introduction
Pages 1-19
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Faces of Masculinity: Shaving Practices and Popular Exhibitions of ‘Hairy Wonders’ in Early Twentieth-Century Prague
Pages 23-44
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Standardizing Slimness: How Body Weight Quantified Beauty in the Netherlands, 1870–1940
Pages 45-72
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Extraordinarily White: The De/Spectacularization of the Albinotic Body and the Normalization of Its Audience
Pages 75-103
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‘Disability Gain’ and the Limits of Representing Alternative Beauty
Pages 105-125
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Beauty and the Norm
- Book Subtitle
- Debating Standardization in Bodily Appearance
- Editors
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- Claudia Liebelt
- Sarah Böllinger
- Ulf Vierke
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Globalization and Embodiment
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-91174-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-91174-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-91173-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-08191-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XX, 308
- Number of Illustrations
- 17 b/w illustrations
- Topics
