Globalizing Beauty
Consumerism and Body Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century
Published on 14. January 2014
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Paperback/Softback
285 pages
978-1-349-67138-0 (ISBN)
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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.
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2013 ed.
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English
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New York
United States
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
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978-1-349-67138-0 (9781349671380)
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Hartmut Berghoff | T. Kühne
Globalizing Beauty
Consumerism and Body Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century
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10/2013
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Persons
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. Müller, Institute For Art And Material Culture, Dortmund University Of Technology, Germany
Uta G. Poiger, History Department, Northeastern University, USA
Véronique Pouillard, Department Of History, Conservation And Archeology (Iakh), University Of Oslo, Norway
Christiane Reichart-Burikukiye, Department Of History, Justus Liebig University Of Giessen, Germany
Anne Sonnemoser, Institute For Advanced Study In The Humanities (Kwi), Essen, Germany
Althea Tait, Department Of Women's Studies, Old Dominion University, USA
Ulrike Thoms, Institute For The History Of Medicine, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Kerry Wallach, Department Of German, Gettysburg College, USA
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. Müller, Institute For Art And Material Culture, Dortmund University Of Technology, Germany
Uta G. Poiger, History Department, Northeastern University, USA
Véronique Pouillard, Department Of History, Conservation And Archeology (Iakh), University Of Oslo, Norway
Christiane Reichart-Burikukiye, Department Of History, Justus Liebig University Of Giessen, Germany
Anne Sonnemoser, Institute For Advanced Study In The Humanities (Kwi), Essen, Germany
Althea Tait, Department Of Women's Studies, Old Dominion University, USA
Ulrike Thoms, Institute For The History Of Medicine, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Kerry Wallach, Department Of German, Gettysburg College, USA
Content
Introduction: 'It Makes Princes of Those Who Have It': Beauty and Consumerism in the Twentieth Century; Hartmut Berghoff and Thomas Kühne PART I: BASIC DEVELOPMENTS AND KEY PROBLEMS 1. The Global and the Local in the Beauty Industry: A Historical Perspective; Geoffrey Jones 2. Consuming Bodies: The Commodification and Technification of Slenderness in the Twentieth Century; Ulrike Thoms 3. Medial Beauty: Three Sociological Theses on Late Modern Body Aesthetics; Michael R. Müller and Anne Sonnenmoser 4. The Harm in Beauty: Toni Morrison's Revisions of Racialized Traditional Theories of Aesthetics in The Bluest Eye; Althea Tait 5. Queer Beauty: Image and Acceptance in the Expanded Public Sphere; Jennifer V. Evans PART II: COSMOPOLITAN ATTEMPTS IN INTERWAR EUROPE 6. Miss Germany, Miss Europe, Miss Universe: Beauty Pageants in the Popular Media of the Weimar Republic; Mila Ganeva 7. Recognition for the 'Beautiful Jewess': Beauty Queens Crowned by Modern Jewish Print Media; Kerry Wallach 8. The Rise of Fashion Forecasting and Fashion Public Relations, 1920 1940: The History of Tobé and Bernays; Véronique Pouillard 9. 'The Beauty Soap of Film Stars': Lux Toilet Soap, Star Endorsements, and Building a Global Beauty Brand; Christina Burr 10. Beauty, Cosmetics, and Vernacular Ethnology in Weimar and Nazi Germany; Uta G. Poiger PART III: APPROPRIATIONS AND AGENCY IN AFRICA AND ASIA 11. Contesting Beauty Concepts in Precolonial and Colonial Kenya: Hierarchy, Resistance, and Identity; Christiane Reichart-Burikukiye 12. Imported Surgeries? Accounting for the Rise of Tehran's Nose-Job Industry; Sara Lenehan 13. Embodying Modernity: The Thrills and Ills of Being a Beautiful Woman in Tana Karo, North Sumatra; Karin Klenke