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Styling Masculinity: Gender, Class, and Inequality in the Men´s Grooming Industry
Kristen Barber
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Description for Styling Masculinity: Gender, Class, and Inequality in the Men´s Grooming Industry
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The twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a new style of man: the metrosexual. Overwhelmingly straight, white, and wealthy, these impeccably coiffed urban professionals spend big money on everything from facials to pedicures, all part of a multi-billion-dollar male grooming industry. Yet as this innovative study reveals, even as the industry encourages men to invest more in their appearance, it still relies on women to do much of the work. Styling Masculinity investigates how men’s beauty salons have persuaded their clientele to regard them as masculine spaces. To answer this question, sociologist Kristen Barber goes inside Adonis and The Executive, ... Read more
The twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a new style of man: the metrosexual. Overwhelmingly straight, white, and wealthy, these impeccably coiffed urban professionals spend big money on everything from facials to pedicures, all part of a multi-billion-dollar male grooming industry. Yet as this innovative study reveals, even as the industry encourages men to invest more in their appearance, it still relies on women to do much of the work. Styling Masculinity investigates how men’s beauty salons have persuaded their clientele to regard them as masculine spaces. To answer this question, sociologist Kristen Barber goes inside Adonis and The Executive, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813565606
SKU
V9780813565606
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Kristen Barber
KRISTEN BARBER is an assistant professor of sociology and a faculty affiliate in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Southern Illinois University–Carbondale.
Reviews for Styling Masculinity: Gender, Class, and Inequality in the Men´s Grooming Industry
"A cut above: Traditional barbershops are back," by Dave McGinn https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/style/article-a-cut-above-traditional-barbershops-are-back/ — Globe and Mail "A salon of his own: Men don't play second fiddle here," by Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,— LoHud.com "Barber provides excellent insight into how women groom men while upholding their gender and class identities, and how masculinity and beauty are not at odds with ... Read more