Globalizing Beauty
Berghoff, Hartmut. Ed(S): Kuhne, Thomas
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Description for Globalizing Beauty
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. Editor(s): Kuhne, Thomas. Series: Worlds of Consumption. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBTB; JFFT; KNSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 170 x 22. Weight in Grams: 588.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
295
Condition
New
Series
Worlds of Consumption
Number of Pages
285
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137299703
SKU
V9781137299703
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About Berghoff, Hartmut. Ed(S): Kuhne, Thomas
Christina Burr, Department Of History, University Of Windsor, UK Jennifer V. Evans, Department Of History, Carleton University, Canada Mila Ganeva, Department Of German, Russian And East Asian Languages, Miami University, USA Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, USA Karin Klenke, Department Of Social And Cultural Anthropology, Georg August University Of Göttingen, Germany Sara Lenehan, Oxford University, UK Michael R. ... Read more
Reviews for Globalizing Beauty
'Chock full of useful information and marvelous counterintuitive insights alike, this spectacular collection demonstrates the enormous cultural and economic ramifications of the global pursuit of beauty. Ranging from Jewish pageant queens and the Nazi cosmetics industry through Kikuyu headshavings in Kenya, lipstick in Sumatra, and muscle-men in the postwar U.S. to Muslim male nose jobs in present-day Tehran, the essays ... Read more