Beauty Up Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics

Name: Beauty Up Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics
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ISBN: 9780520245099

ISBN-10: 0520245091

ISBN-13: 9780520245099

Edition: 2006

Authors: Laura Miller

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This engaging introduction to Japan's burgeoning beauty culture investigates a wide range of phenomenon--aesthetic salons, dieting products, male beauty activities, and beauty language--to find out why Japanese women and men are paying so much attention to their bodies. Laura Miller uses social science and popular culture sources to connect breast enhancements, eyelid surgery, body hair removal, nipple bleaching, and other beauty work to larger issues of gender ideology, the culturally-constructed nature of beauty ideals, and the globalization of beauty technologies and standards. Her sophisticated treatment of this timely topic suggests that new body aesthetics are not forms of…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 271
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Preliminaries


Acknowledgments


Introduction


Approaches to Body Aesthetics and the Beauty System



Changing Beauty Ideology



Aesthetic Salons



Mammary Mania



Body Fashion and Beauty Etiquette



Male Beauty Work



The Well-Behaved Appetite



The Language of Esute



Esute Power


Notes


Bibliography


Index