The Beauty Industry; Gender, Culture, Pleasure
The Beauty Industry; Gender, Culture, Pleasure
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Book Description
The beauty industry is now a multinational, multi-million dollar business. In recent years its place in contemporary culture has altered hugely as salons have become not simply places to have your hair cut or your nails done, but increasingly sites of physical and even spiritual therapy. In this fascinating and nuanced study, Paula Black strips away many popular assumptions about the beauty industry, including the one that says it exploits people's insecurity by projecting an illusory beauty myth. The interviews in this book--both with the beauty industry's workers and its clients--reveal a far more complex and interesting picture.
About the Author
Paula Black is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Sussex. She has written widely on the subjects of gender, beauty, and culture.
The Beauty Industry,Paula Black,Routledge,0415321581,Beauty & Grooming - Cosmetics,Beauty culture,Beauty, Personal,Body, Human,Consumer Health,Feminine beauty (Aesthetics),Gender Studies,General,Great Britain,Science,Science/Mathematics,Social Science / Gender Studies,Sociology, Social Studies
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