Strict Beauty
Author: David S. Areford
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780300253825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA landmark survey of Sol LeWitt's printmaking practice
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Buying Beauty
Author: WEN Hua
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9888139827
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCosmetic surgery in China has grown rapidly in recent years of dramatic social transition. Facing fierce competition in all spheres of daily life, more and more women consider cosmetic surgery as an investment to gain “beauty capital” to increase opportunities for social and career success. Building on rich ethnographic data, this book presents the perspectives of women who have undergone cosmetic surgery, illuminating the aspirations behind their choices. The author explores how turbulent economic, socio-cultural and political changes in China since the 1980s have produced immense anxiety that is experienced by women both mentally and physically. This book will appeal to readers who are interested in gender studies, China studies, anthropology and sociology of the body, and cultural studies.
Made Up
Author: Martha Laham
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-10-10
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1538138050
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMade Up exposes the multibillion-dollar beauty industry that promotes unrealistic beauty standards through a market basket of advertising tricks, techniques, and technologies. Cosmetics magnate Charles Revson, a founder of Revlon, was quoted as saying, "In the factory, we make cosmetics. In the store, we sell hope." This pioneering entrepreneur, who built an empire on the foundation of nail polish, captured the unvarnished truth about the beauty business in a single metaphor: hope in a jar. Made Up: How the Beauty Industry Manipulates Consumers, Preys on Women’s Insecurities, and Promotes Unattainable Beauty Standards is a thorough examination of innovative, and often controversial, advertising practices used by beauty companies to persuade consumers, mainly women, to buy discretionary goods like cosmetics and scents. These approaches are clearly working: the average American woman will spend around $300,000 on facial products alone during her lifetime. This revealing book traces the evolution of the global beauty industry, discovers what makes beauty consumers tick, explores the persistence and pervasiveness of the feminine beauty ideal, and investigates the myth-making power of beauty advertising. It also examines stereotypical portrayals of women in beauty ads, looks at celebrity beauty endorsements, and dissects the “looks industry.” Made Upuncovers the reality behind an Elysian world of fantasy and romance created by beauty brands that won’t tell women the truth about beauty.
The Persistence of Beauty
Author: Michael O’Neill
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-09-30
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1317303822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis significant collection of essays examines the cultural, literary, philosophical and historical representation of beauty in British, Irish and American literature. Contributors use the works of Charles Dickens, T S Eliot, W H Auden and Stephen Spender among others to explore the role of beauty and its wider implications in art and society.
FemTech
Author: Lindsay Anne Balfour
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2024-01-24
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9819956056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection draws from cultural studies and Feminist Science and Technology Studies to offer a timely and exciting intervention into the growing field of women’s digital health. It explores the intersection of gender and embodied computing, with particular attention to access barriers and the forms of biometric surveillance that operate in wearables, ingestibles, and embeddables marketed to women (the industry generally known as “FemTech”). While the most utilized and profitable FemTech products include ovulation and fitness trackers, reproductive technologies, contraceptive microchips, and “smart” pills, this only represents a fraction of health concerns affecting women. This volume aims to explore FemTech within the context of Feminist Science and Technology Studies, whereby the entanglements of race, class, gender, ability, sexuality and other social and cultural identities are brought to the fore. By addressing the gaps in FemTech research and socio-cultural barriers to access, this volume critiques the forms of knowledge and experience produced through medical and cultural discourses regarding women’s bodies to both highlight the inequalities in women’s digital health, and imagine alternative models which optimise technology for women in a way that is safe, accessible, and inclusive.
All Made Up
Author: Rae Nudson
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2021-07-13
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 0807059684
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fascinating journey through history and culture, examining how makeup affects self-empowerment, how people have used it to define (and defy) their roles in society, and why we all need to care There is a history and a cultural significance that comes with wearing cat-eye-inspired liner or a bold red lip, one that many women feel to this day, even if we don’t realize exactly why. Increasingly, people of all genders are wrestling with what it means to be a woman living in a patriarchy, and part of that is how looking like a woman—whatever that means—affects people’s real lives. Through the stories of famous women like Cleopatra, Empress Wu, Madam C. J. Walker, Elizabeth Taylor, and Marsha P. Johnson, Rae Nudson unpacks makeup’s cultural impact—including how it can be used to shape a personal or cultural narrative, how often beauty standards align with whiteness, how and when it can be used for safety, and its function in the workplace, to name a few examples. Every woman has had to make a very personal choice about her relationship with makeup, and consciously or unconsciously, every woman knows that the choice is never entirely hers to make. This book also holds space for complicating factors, especially the ways that beauty standards differ across race, class, and culture. Engaging and informative, All Made Up will expand the discussion around what it means to participate in creating your own self-image.
Out
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Published: 2006-02
Total Pages: 86
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOut is a fashion, style, celebrity and opinion magazine for the modern gay man.
Beyond Beautiful
Author: Anuschka Rees
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Published: 2019-05-14
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 039958210X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ultimate guide to building confidence in your body, beauty, clothes and life in an era of toxic social media-driven beauty standards. “A self-confidence bible that every woman should read.”—Caroline Dooner, author of The F*ck It Diet Empowering, insightful, and psychology-driven, Beyond Beautiful is filled with proven, no-BS strategies for proactive self-care. This stylish and practical handbook takes a deep-dive into all of the factors that make it hard to feel good about yourself, and offers sage answers to tricky questions, like: • Why do I hate the way I look in pictures? • How can I stop feeling like a total slob compared to everyone on social media? • How exactly does this "self-love" thing work? • How do I find the confidence to use less make up, stop shaving, or wear what I want? • Is body positivity really the answer? Illustrated with full-color art, Beyond Beautiful is a much-needed breath of fresh air that will help you live your best life, know your worth, and stop wasting any more precious energy and mental space worrying about the way you look. Praise for Beyond Beautiful “This compact book delves into every aspect of the body-image problem and sets forth feasible ideas for accepting one’s physical appearance to enhance confidence and joy.”—Library Journal (starred review) “Rees’s emboldening message will surely help any reader struggling with self-confidence.”—Publishers Weekly
Popular Adorable Consort
Author: Wu Dongdecaihong
Publisher: Funstory
Published: 2020-01-08
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 1647963680
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Luowan, an ordinary Girl of the twenty-first century."She did not have any grand dreams. Having a family to spend the rest of her life with was the greatest wish of her life.But reality is often the opposite of dreams.She had fallen into another world after an accident.Fate had arranged for her to meet him.That cold and aloof man, he was not easy to approach, he was full of dignity, and treated people like grass.But unfortunately, the two of them had a wonderful feeling of love.From the initial rejection, to the final liking.But could the gap between classes, the political struggle, the insertion of misunderstandings, and the two of them be together again? "
Unification Medical Science
Author: Dr. Shigehiro Suzuki
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2013-02-13
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1300731478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book combines insights from the Unification Thought of Reverend Moon with those of modern medical science
