Name: Beauty up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics (en Inglés)
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Author: Laura Miller
ISBN: 9780520245099

portada Beauty up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics (en Inglés)

Beauty up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of California Press

Autor

Laura Miller

Año

2006

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

274

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

ISBN

0520245091

ISBN13

9780520245099

N° edición

Categorías

Japón
Historia de asia

Beauty up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics (en Inglés)

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This engaging introduction to Japan's burgeoning beauty culture investigates a wide range of phenomenon - aesthetic salons, dieting products, male beauty activities, and beauty language - to find out why Japanese women and men are paying so much attention to their bodies. Laura Miller uses social science and popular culture sources to connect breast enhancements, eyelid surgery, body hair removal, nipple bleaching, and other beauty work to larger issues of gender ideology, the culturally-constructed nature of beauty ideals, and the globalization of beauty technologies and standards. Her sophisticated treatment of this timely topic suggests that new body aesthetics are not forms of "deracializiation" but rather innovative experimentation with identity management. While recognizing that these beauty activities are potentially a form of resistance, Miller also considers the commodification of beauty, exploring how new ideals and technologies are tying consumers even more firmly to an ever-expanding beauty industry. By considering beauty in a Japanese context, Miller challenges widespread assumptions about the universality and naturalness of beauty standards.