Global Beauty, Local Bodies

✍ Scribed by Afshan Jafar, Erynn Masi de Casanova (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 207
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Refashioning Global Bodies....Pages 1-21
Aesthetic Labor, Racialization, and Aging in Tijuana’s Cosmopolitan Sex Industry....Pages 23-50
In Praise of Big Noses....Pages 51-58
¡Más que un Bocado! (More Than a Mouthful)....Pages 59-81
Most Days I’m Beautiful....Pages 83-88
Reproducing Beauty....Pages 89-116
The Before-and-After Template....Pages 117-123
Metrosexuality as a Body Discourse....Pages 125-150
Back Matter....Pages 151-185

✦ Subjects

Political Sociology; Human Geography; Gender Studies; Sociology of the Body; Sociology of Culture; Sociology, general

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