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What do the words global, transnational, national, and local mean when talking about beauty, which is simultaneously abstract and ephemeral, embodied and concrete? How do ideas and images of beauty circulate in a globalizing world, and how do people's bodily practices respond to them? Rather than simply examining how beauty is thought about and aspired to in international settings, this collection of original scholarly work and first-person accounts takes globalization processes and the transnational links these processes create as the jumping-off point for an examination of what it means to be, have, or aspire to a beautiful body.
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Global Beauty, Local Bodies, Afshan Jafar, Erynn Masi De Casanova
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- Released
- 2013
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- Title
- Global Beauty, Local Bodies
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Afshan Jafar, Erynn Masi De Casanova
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Released
- 2013
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 210
- ISBN10
- 1137378662
- ISBN13
- 9781137378668
- Series
- Tags
- Social Sciences, Geography & Topography, Women, Politics, USA, Sociology, Culture and Society, Sexuality & Intimacy, Political Theories, Gender, Popular Culture, Globalization, Sociology of Culture
- Description
- What do the words global, transnational, national, and local mean when talking about beauty, which is simultaneously abstract and ephemeral, embodied and concrete? How do ideas and images of beauty circulate in a globalizing world, and how do people's bodily practices respond to them? Rather than simply examining how beauty is thought about and aspired to in international settings, this collection of original scholarly work and first-person accounts takes globalization processes and the transnational links these processes create as the jumping-off point for an examination of what it means to be, have, or aspire to a beautiful body.