The Global Beauty Industry: Colorism, Racism, and the National Body by Meeta Jha

Description: The Global Beauty Industry by Meeta Jha The Global Beauty Industry is an interdisciplinary text that uses beauty to explore topics of gender, race, class, colorism, nation, bodies, multiculturalism, transnationalism, and intersectionality. Integrating materials from a wide range of cultural and geo-political contexts, it coalesces with initiatives to produce more internationally relevant curricula in fields such as sociology, as well as cultural, womens/gender, media, and globalization studies. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Meeta Rani Jha is a feminist sociologist and an anti-racist activist. She is a scholar-in-residence at Beatrice Bain Research Group (BBRG) in the Gender and Womens Studies Department at the University of California, Berkeley, US. She has taught sociology, globalization, transnational feminist cultural studies, critical race, ethnicity, and media studies at a number of universities in the San Francisco Bay area (currently at the University of San Francisco, US) and in London. For a long time she was a community organizer on issues of racial discrimination, low pay, migration, domestic violence, and homeworking in the UK. Table of Contents 1. The Miss America Beauty Pageant: Race and Nation-Making 2. Black is Beautiful anti-racist Beauty Aesthetic and Cultural Resistance 3. Globalization, Indian Beauty Nationalism, and Colorism: Class, Caste and Gender Stratification 4. Chinese Femininity, Beauty Economy, Cosmetic Surgery 5. Conclusion: A Complex model of Beauty Resistance Details ISBN1138839434 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Series Framing 21st Century Social Issues Year 2015 ISBN-10 1138839434 ISBN-13 9781138839434 Format Paperback Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 338.4764672 Short Title GLOBAL BEAUTY INDUSTRY Language English Media Book Subtitle Colorism, Racism, and the National Body Pages 134 Illustrations 16 Halftones, black and white; 16 Illustrations, black and white Publication Date 2015-09-17 AU Release Date 2015-09-17 NZ Release Date 2015-09-17 UK Release Date 2015-09-17 Author Meeta Jha Alternative 9781138188419 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:139893492;

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