Elizabeth M. Matelski

Gebundenes Buch

Reducing Bodies

Mass Culture and the Female Figure in Postwar America

Beschreibung

Reducing Bodies: Mass Culture and the Female Figure in Postwar America explores the ways in which women in the years following World War II refashioned their bodies - through reducing diets, exercise, and plastic surgery - and asks what insights these changing beauty standards can offer into gender dynamics in postwar America.

Autor

Elizabeth M. Matelski is Assistant Professor of History at Endicott College, USA.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 429g
• ISBN-13: 9781138681644
• ISBN-10: 1138681644
• Artikelnr.: 69947791