Beauty up : exploring contemporary Japanese body aesthetics

Beauty up exploring contemporary Japanese body aesthetics

This engaging introduction to Japan's burgeoning beauty culture investigates a wide range of phenomenon-aesthetic salons, dieting products, male beauty activities, and beauty language-to find out why Japanese women and men are paying so much attention to their bodies. Laura Miller uses social s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miller, Laura, 1953- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press c2006.
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
Human body > Social aspects > Japan.
Beauty, Personal > Japan.
Beauty culture > Japan.
Body image > Japan.
Philosophy, Japanese.
Japan > Social life and customs.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798063506719
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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