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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Angela B McCracken |
ISBN: | 9780199908066 0199908060 |
OCLC Number: | 849740877 |
Description: | 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction: The beauty trade -- Seeing the global economy of beauty through gender lenses -- Here comes the Quinceañera: isn't she beautiful? -- Princess dresses, sexy dances, and eye shadow: the construction of a global political economy of beauty through a makeover -- Beauty and the Quince: a reproductive economy view -- Beauty has a price: the global productive economy of beauty -- Different brands of beauty: subcultures and the global virtual economy -- Conclusion: Youth, gender and fashion globalization. |
Series Title: | Oxford studies in gender and international relations. |
Responsibility: | by Angela B.V. McCracken. |
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Beauty matters - to our self-identifications, social relations and life prospects; and beauty industries feature extensively in today's global economy. Yet in spite of its cultural and economic significance, this vast terrain of power is rarely examined, and rarer still from the ground up. McCracken's delightful, well executed and very informative study changes this. Read her book and ponder its intriguing insights regarding the agency of women and youth,constructions of gender and race, dynamics of cultural transformation, and how power operates in the global business of beauty. * V. Spike Peterson, Professor of International Relations, University of Arizona * Read more...


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