Sheila Jeffreys

Beauty and Misogyny

Harmful cultural practices in the West

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Produktbeschreibung

The new edition of Beauty and Misogyny revisits and updates Sheila Jeffreys' uncompromising critique of Western beauty practice and the industries and ideologies behind it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781848724471
• ISBN-10: 1848724470
• Artikelnr.: 41030052

Autorenporträt

Sheila Jeffreys is Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, where she teaches sexual politics and international feminist politics. Before coming to Melbourne in 1991, she was active in the Women's Liberation Movement in the UK from 1973, campaigning against pornography and violence against women, and in lesbian feminist politics. In Australia she is involved in the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women. She has written nine books on the history and politics of sexuality.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The 'grip of culture on the body': beauty practices as
women's agency or women's subordination 2. Harmful beauty practices and
western culture 3. Transfemininity: 'Dressed' men reveal the naked reality
of male power 4. Pornochic: prostitution constructs beauty 5. Fashion and
Misogyny 6. Making up is hard to do 7. Men's foot and shoe fetishism and
the disabling of women 8. Cutting Up Women: beauty practices as
self-mutilation by proxy Conclusion: A culture of resistance