Beauty up : exploring contemporary Japanese body aesthetics / / Laura Miller |
Autore | Miller Laura <1953-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 256 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 306.4/0952 |
Soggetto topico |
Human body - Social aspects - Japan
Beauty, Personal - Japan Beauty culture - Japan Body image - Japan Philosophy, Japanese |
Soggetto non controllato |
aesthetic salons
beauty culture beauty ideals beauty industry beauty language beauty standards beauty work body aesthetics body hair removal consumer society contemporary history contemporary japan cosmetic surgery cultural criticism diet and health elective surgery gender ideology identity management japanese culture japanese men japanese women male beauty men and women nonfiction plastic surgery popular culture social science |
ISBN |
9786612771859
0-520-93884-4 1-282-77185-X 1-60129-397-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Preliminaries -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Approaches To Body Aesthetics And The Beauty System -- 1. Changing Beauty Ideology -- 2. Aesthetic Salons -- 3. Mammary Mania -- 4. Body Fashion And Beauty Etiquette -- 5. Male Beauty Work -- 6. The Well-Behaved Appetite -- 7. The Language Of Esute -- 8. Esute Power -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784407203321 |
Miller Laura <1953->
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Born again bodies [[electronic resource] ] : flesh and spirit in American Christianity / / R. Marie Griffith |
Autore | Griffith R. Marie (Ruth Marie), <1967-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (338 p.) |
Disciplina | 233/.5 |
Collana | California studies in food and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Human body - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines
Human body - Social aspects - United States - History Protestantism - United States - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
america
american history beauty ideals bigotry born again christians christian dieting christian fitness christianity diet and nutrition diet culture diet history diet literature diet preachers diet programs fitness programs food and culture nonfiction survey nonfiction obesity overweight populations physical anthropology religious movements religious perspectives sociology spiritual connections spirituality theoretical approach united states |
ISBN |
9786612763076
0-520-93811-9 1-282-76307-5 1-59734-507-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Note on Reading the Images -- 1. Gluttons for Regimen -- 2. Sculptors of Our Own Exterior -- 3. Minding the Body -- 4. Pray the Weight Away -- 5. "Don't Eat That" -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Primary Source Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783386703321 |
Griffith R. Marie (Ruth Marie), <1967->
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Flesh wounds : the culture of cosmetic surgery / / Virginia L. Blum |
Autore | Blum Virginia L. <1956-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 356 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 617.9/5 |
Soggetto topico |
Surgery, Plastic - Social aspects
Surgery, Plastic - Psychological aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
american culture
american identity anthropology beauty icons beauty ideals celebrity contemporary culture cosmetic surgery cultural analysis cultural criticism cultural practices elective surgery ethnographers ethnography feminism gender studies interviews modern society nonfiction account patients and doctors philosophical plastic surgeons plastic surgery psychology social conditions sociology youthful ideals |
ISBN |
0-520-24473-7
1-4175-1057-9 0-520-93873-9 1-59734-616-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The patient's body -- Untouchable bodies -- The plastic surgeon and the patient: a slow dance -- Frankenstein gets a facelift -- As if beauty -- The monster and the movie star -- Being and having: celebrity culture and the wages of love -- Addicted to surgery. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780449403321 |
Blum Virginia L. <1956->
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