Embodiment and Representations of Beauty
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Embodiment and Representations of Beauty

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Embodiment and Representations of Beauty

About this book

Beauty embodiment and representations of beauty are crafted by legitimised hierarchies of power in popular culture, including across fashion, sports, media and social media outlets, and the arts. Informed and guided by an intersectional lens with a focus on underrepresented communities, this volume of Advances in Gender Research foregrounds gender and sexuality to engage with beauty as a site of knowledge creation.

Interrogating its very definition, chapters take a revolutionary, intersectional approach to explore beauty as an avenue to create alternative knowledge as well as a conduit to engage in critical conversations on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, illness, and fitness. Emphasizing that beauty definitions and standards in any given society closely reflect the distribution of power within it, contributors think critically about the role of institutions such as the hair industry, workplaces, the visual arts, and classical dance in how beauty is socially construed and conceptualized.

Grounded in a more open-ended conception that goes beyond aesthetics, Embodiment and Representations of Beauty celebrates beauty's capacity as a source of liberation, agency, social justice, decolonization, and survival for marginalized communities, as well as an emancipatory path to feminist liberation.

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Yes, you can access Embodiment and Representations of Beauty by Esther Hernández-Medina, Sharina Maíllo-Pozo, Esther Hernández-Medina,Sharina Maíllo-Pozo in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Gender Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. The Power of Beauty: Intersectional Feminist Approaches to its Embodiment and Representation
  4. Chapter 1. Mamá Fit Goes to El Salvador: Fitness in A Transnational Society
  5. Chapter 2. Shifting Perceptions of Women’s Weight
  6. Chapter 3. Doing Beauty, Doing Health: Embodied Emotion Work in Women Cancer Patients’ Narratives of Hair Loss
  7. Chapter 4. “How Do They Really See Me?”: The Sexual Politics of Multiracial Desirability
  8. Chapter 5. Body Image and Sexual Pleasure in Women and Genderqueer Individual’s Sexual Experiences
  9. Chapter 6. I Don’t Wear Black: Professional Muslim Workers and Personal Dress Code
  10. Chapter 7. Millennial Agency and Liberation Within Black American Beauty Standards
  11. Chapter 8. Ballet is [White] Woman: Anti-Black Standards of Beauty Within Ballet
  12. Chapter 9. Consuming Beauty, Constructing Blackness: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Analysis of Racialized Gendered Embodiment Practices Through Shampoo Product Descriptions
  13. Chapter 10. Mulata in Repose