"Beautifully written, cleverly argued, and skillfully researched,
Debra Gimlin's "Body Work goes beyond the argument that the beauty
industry exists only to control women. Instead, Gimlin examines
women's relationship to beauty from a feminist sociological
perspective, finding that women are not dupes of the beauty
industry but rather use body work in both empowering and degrading
ways. It's about time a sociologist delved into women's complicated
relationship to the beauty industry!"--Verta Taylor, author of
"Rock-a-By Baby: Feminism, Self-Help, and Postpartum Depression
"This fascinating study reveals how changing the body is really
an effort to reconstruct the self-from aerobics, cosmetic surgery,
and hair salon makeovers to therapeutic groups about accepting
one's "fat" body. Gimlin fuses theoretical acuity with tender
analysis, enabling the reader to engage critically and
empathetically with these quotidian social constructionists. With
efforts to transform the body becoming ever more frenzied as Baby
Boomers age, this book is both timely and important."-- Michael
Kimmel, author of "Manhood in America: A Cultural History
"Gimlin effectively demonstrates how the business of beauty is
ultimately not about abstruse theories but rather about how women
negotiate beauty to transact in everyday life. This perception that
beauty may be the one area where the personal is not political
recasts all theories previously forwarded on the subject and adds
significantly to the literature about the culture of
beauty."--Raquel Scherr, author of "Face Value: The Politics of
Beauty
"This thoughtful, interesting, and well-written book emphasizes
the complexities of contemporary U.S. women as theynegotiate
identity through both participation and resistance to dominant
beauty ideologies."--Sarah Banet-Weiser, author of "The Most
Beautiful Girl in the World
"Much more than a straightforward feminist critique of the
beauty industry, "Body Work offers a nuanced and sensitive analysis
of the types of work that women do to construct and to maintain an
identity with which they can live comfortably, steering clear of
representations of women as passive victims of oppressive
structures."--Nilufer Isvan, Assistant Professor of Sociology,
State University of New York at Stony Brook
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