Body Work Beauty and Self-Image in American Culture

Name: Body Work Beauty and Self-Image in American Culture
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ISBN: 9780520228566

ISBN-10: 0520228561

ISBN-13: 9780520228566

Edition: 2002

Authors: Debra Gimlin

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Today women are lifting weights to build muscle, wrapping their bodies in seaweed to reduce unwanted water retention, attending weigh-ins at diet centers, and devoting themselves to many other types of "body work." Filled with the voices of real women, this book unravels the complicated emotional and intellectual motivations that drive them as they confront American culture's unreachable beauty ideals. This powerful feminist study lucidly and compellingly argues against the idea that the popularity of body work means that women are enslaved to a male-fashioned "beauty myth." Essential reading for understanding current debates on beauty, Body Work demonstrates that women actually use body…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/2/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 181
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Body Work as Self Work



The Hair Salon: Social Class, Power, and Ideal Beauty



Aerobics: Neutralizing the Body and Renegotiating the Self



Cosmetic Surgery: Paying for Your Beauty



NAAFA: Reinterpreting the Fat Body


Conclusion: The Body, Oppression, and Resistance


Notes


Index