gender, culture, pleasure
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Black, Paula
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- A864 - A
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenlichamen, feminisme, zwarte vrouwen, interview (vorm)
- Description
- The beauty industry is now a multinational, multi-million dollar business. In recent years its place in contemporary culture has altered hugely as salons have become not simply places to have your hair cut or your nails done, but increasingly sites of physical and even spiritual therapy. The interviews in this book - both with the beauty industry's workers and its clients - reveal a complex and interesting picture, and, in their presentation, Black re-formulates many feminist debates around choice and constraint. The debates addressed include issues around the body: the construction and maintenance of gender identity: changing definitions of health and well-being: and labour processes