The Routledge Companion to Beauty Politics

Part One: Theorizing Beauty Politics; 1 Introduction; Maxine Leeds Craig; ; 2 Neoliberal Beauty; 3 Beauty and Class; 4 Transnational Feminist Approaches to Beauty; 5 Philosophy and the Politics of Beauty; ; 6 Picking Your Battles: Beauty, Complacency and the Other Life of Racism ; Part Two: Competing Definitions of Beauty; ; 7 Democratizing Looks: The Politics of Gender, Class and Beauty in early 20th century United States; 8 Some's Thin, Some's Voluptuous But They All Fine: Feminine Beauty in Black Publications 1827-1909; 9 Colorism and the Racial Politics of Beauty; 10 Beauty, Colorism, and Anti-Colorism in Transnational India; 11 Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Body Size; 12 Beauty Standards and Body-Image Issues in the West and Japan from a Cultural Perspective; 13 Body Aesthetics & Beauty Politics in 21st Century Africa: Case of the Sudan; 14 Fantastic Bodies: Navigating Ideals of Beauty in Cosplay; Part Three: Beauty, Activism, and Social Change; ; 15 The Rise of Disability Aesthetics: Reframing the Relationship between Disability, Beauty, and Art; 16 "There is Something Chic about Women Wearing Men's Clothes": Lesbian Activists as Fashionable Women in the Fight for the Rights of Sexual Minorities in the United States, 1955-1972; 17 Fat Activism and Beauty Politics; 18 Bumpah Politics: The Thick Black Female Body in the US and Caribbean Academic Discourses; 19 Rooted: On Black Women, Beauty, Hair and Embodiment; 20 I do not see myself as anything else than white: Black resistance to racial cosplay blackfishing; 21 The Beautiful Body in the Age of #metoo; Part Four: Body Work; ; 22 Genital Aesthetics; 23 Body hair removal: Constructing the 'baseline' for the normative gendered body in the contemporary Anglophone West; 24 Negotiating "Islamic" Beauty in Turkey, or Conceptualizing the Complex Entanglements Between Beauty and Religion; 25 Botox and Beauty Politics; 26 Orthodontics as Expected Beauty Work; 27 Cosmetic Surgery and the discourse of Westernization of Korean Bodies; 28 The Racial Politics of Plastic Surgery; Part Five: Beauty and Labor; ; 29 Size Matters (In Modeling); 30 Tattooers at Work: An Emotional and Permanent Body Labor; 31 Beauty Pageants and Border Crossings: The Politics of Class, Cosmopolitanism, Race and Place; ; 32 Retail Work, Race and Aesthetic Labor; 33 Hourly Beauty: Aesthetic Labor in China; Part Six: Beauty and the Lifecourse; ; 34 Girls and Beauty (Pageant) Culture; 35 The Politics of Looking Old: Older Adults and the Aging Body; 36 The Incredible Invisible Woman: Age, Beauty and the Specter of Identity; ;