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The Beauty Industry: Gender, Culture, Pleasure
Abstract
The beauty industry is now a multinational, multi-million dollar business. In recent years its place in contemporary culture has altered hugely as salons have become not simply places to have your hair cut or your nails done, but increasingly sites of physical and even spiritual therapy. In this fascinating and nuanced study, Paula Black strips away many popular assumptions about the beauty industry, including the one that says it exploits people's insecurity by projecting an illusory beauty myth. The interviews in this book - both with the beauty industry's workers and its clients - reveal a far more complex and interesting picture, and, in their presentation, Black re-formulates many feminist debates around choice and constraint. The debates addressed include issues around the body; the construction and maintenance of gender identity; changing definitions of health and well-being; and labour processes.
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“Indeed, our culture places a great emphasis on females’ physical appearance [60] and attractiveness [61], and women with HNC may perceive a considerable discrepancy between their body and the beauty standards portrayed by society due to appearance changes in the head and neck area, which may negatively impact their body image [2].”
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- Authors
- Black, P.
- Corresponding author
- Black, Paula
- Venue
- Routledge eBooks
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2004-08-02
- OpenAlex
- W4256644918
- Cited by
- 9
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 4 · 2022: 2 · 2018: 1
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- 0.00
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Routledge eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Consumer Perception and Purchasing Behavior
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Industrial relations › Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies
- Keywords
- beauty industry, beauty salons, beauty myth, body image, gender identity, feminist theory, health and well-being, labor process, beauty industry workers, customers, physiotherapy, spiritual therapy
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