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The growth of the service economy, widespread acceptance of
cosmetic technologies, expansion of global media, and the
intensification of scrutiny of appearance brought about by the
internet have heightened the power of beauty ideals in everyday
life. A range of interdisciplinary contributions by an
international roster of established and emerging scholars will
introduce students to the emergence of debates about beauty,
including work in history, sociology, communications, anthropology,
gender studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, cultural
studies, philosophy, and psychology. The Routledge Companion to
Beauty Politics is an essential reference work for students and
researchers interested in the politics of appearance. Comprising
over 30 chapters by a team of international contributors the
Handbook is divided into six parts: Theorizing Beauty Politics
Competing Definitions of Beauty Beauty, Activism, and Social Change
Body Work Beauty and Labor Beauty and the Lifecourse The Routledge
Companion to Beauty Politics is essential reading for students in
Women and Gender Studies, Sociology, Media Studies, Communications,
Philosophy, and Psychology.
The growth of the service economy, widespread acceptance of
cosmetic technologies, expansion of global media, and the
intensification of scrutiny of appearance brought about by the
internet have heightened the power of beauty ideals in everyday
life. A range of interdisciplinary contributions by an
international roster of established and emerging scholars will
introduce students to the emergence of debates about beauty,
including work in history, sociology, communications, anthropology,
gender studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, cultural
studies, philosophy, and psychology. The Routledge Companion to
Beauty Politics is an essential reference work for students and
researchers interested in the politics of appearance. Comprising
over 30 chapters by a team of international contributors the
Handbook is divided into six parts: Theorizing Beauty Politics
Competing Definitions of Beauty Beauty, Activism, and Social Change
Body Work Beauty and Labor Beauty and the Lifecourse The Routledge
Companion to Beauty Politics is essential reading for students in
Women and Gender Studies, Sociology, Media Studies, Communications,
Philosophy, and Psychology.
That men don't dance is a common stereotype. As one man tried to
explain, "Music is something that goes on inside my head, and is
sort of divorced from, to a large extent, the rest of my body." How
did this man's head become divorced from his body? While it may
seem natural and obvious that most white men don't dance, it is
actually a recent phenomenon tied to the changing norms of gender,
race, class, and sexuality. Combining archival sources, interviews,
and participant observation, Sorry I Don't Dance analyzes how,
within the United States, recreational dance became associated with
women rather than men, youths rather than adults, and ethnic
minorities rather than whites. At the beginning of the twentieth
century and World War II, lots of ordinary men danced. In fact,
during the first two decades of the twentieth century dance was so
enormously popular that journalists reported that young people had
gone "dance mad" and reformers campaigned against its moral
dangers. During World War II dance was an activity associated with
wholesome masculinity, and the USO organized dances and supplied
dance partners to servicemen. Later, men in the Swing Era danced,
but many of their sons and grandsons do not. Turning her attention
to these contemporary wallflowers, Maxine Craig talks to men about
how they learn to dance or avoid learning to dance within a culture
that celebrates masculinity as white and physically constrained and
associates both femininity and ethnically-marked men with
sensuality and physical expressivity. In this way, race and gender
get into bodies and become the visible, common sense proof of
racial and gender difference.
This collection offers writings on the body with a focus on
performance, defined as both staged performance and everyday
performance. Traditionally, theorizations of the body have either
analyzed its impact on its socio-historical environment or treated
the body as a self-enclosed semiotic and affective system. This
collection makes a conscious effort to merge these two approaches.
It is interested in interactions between bodies and other bodies,
bodies and environments, and bodies and objects.
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