Globalizing beauty : consumerism and body aesthetics in the twentieth century

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Globalizing beauty : consumerism and body aesthetics in the twentieth century

edited by Hartmut Berghoff and Thomas Kühne

(Worlds of consumption)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

This volume aims to advance our understanding of beauty's role in modern consumer societies by bringing together fresh scholarship that addresses a common set of questions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including especially history, but also black studies, women's studies, German studies, sociology, and anthropology.

目次

  • Introduction: 'It Makes Princes of Those Who Have It': Beauty and Consumerism in the Twentieth Century
  • Hartmut Berghoff and Thomas Kuhne PART I: BASIC DEVELOPMENTS AND KEY PROBLEMS 1. The Global and the Local in the Beauty Industry: A Historical Perspective
  • Geoffrey Jones 2. Consuming Bodies: The Commodification and Technification of Slenderness in the Twentieth Century
  • Ulrike Thoms 3. Medial Beauty: Three Sociological Theses on Late Modern Body Aesthetics
  • Michael R. Muller and Anne Sonnenmoser 4. The Harm in Beauty: Toni Morrison's Revisions of Racialized Traditional Theories of Aesthetics in The Bluest Eye
  • Althea Tait 5. Queer Beauty: Image and Acceptance in the Expanded Public Sphere
  • Jennifer V. Evans PART II: COSMOPOLITAN ATTEMPTS IN INTERWAR EUROPE 6. Miss Germany, Miss Europe, Miss Universe: Beauty Pageants in the Popular Media of the Weimar Republic
  • Mila Ganeva 7. Recognition for the 'Beautiful Jewess': Beauty Queens Crowned by Modern Jewish Print Media
  • Kerry Wallach 8. The Rise of Fashion Forecasting and Fashion Public Relations, 1920 1940: The History of Tobe and Bernays
  • Veronique Pouillard 9. 'The Beauty Soap of Film Stars': Lux Toilet Soap, Star Endorsements, and Building a Global Beauty Brand
  • Christina Burr 10. Beauty, Cosmetics, and Vernacular Ethnology in Weimar and Nazi Germany
  • Uta G. Poiger PART III: APPROPRIATIONS AND AGENCY IN AFRICA AND ASIA 11. Contesting Beauty Concepts in Precolonial and Colonial Kenya: Hierarchy, Resistance, and Identity
  • Christiane Reichart-Burikukiye 12. Imported Surgeries? Accounting for the Rise of Tehran's Nose-Job Industry
  • Sara Lenehan 13. Embodying Modernity: The Thrills and Ills of Being a Beautiful Woman in Tana Karo, North Sumatra
  • Karin Klenke

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