The Beauty Trade by Angela B Mccracken

The Beauty Trade by Angela B Mccracken

The Beauty Trade takes seriously the frequently maligned and trivialized beauty economy, just as it has become one of the most important worldwide industries. Through the lens of beauty products, practices, and ideas of youth in Guadalajara, Mexico, the book analyzes whether and how beauty norms are changing in relation to the globalizing beauty economy. It looks at who benefits and who loses from beauty globalization and what this means for gender norms among youth. Weaving together fascinating ethnographic research on beauty practices, global political economy, and feminist analysis, the book presents a feminist analysis of the global economy of beauty. Rather than a sign of frivolity, the beauty economy is intimately connected to youth's social and economic development. Cosmetic makeovers have become a modern rite of passage for girls, enabling social connections and differentiations, as well as entrepreneurial activities. The global beauty economy is a phenomenon generated by young people, mostly women, laboring in, teaching, and consuming beauty. Globalization in the beauty economy is a phenomenon propelled by youth, eager for belonging and originality, using every mechanism at their disposal to look good. Contrary to popular wisdom, globalization in the beauty economy is not homogenizing beauty standards to a Western ideal; it is diversifying beauty standards. The Beauty Trade explains how globalization, combined with youth's desires for uniqueness, is enabling the spread of a diversity of beauty cultures, including alternative visions of gender appropriate looks and behavior.

Beauty matters - to our self-identifications, social relations and life prospects; and beauty industries feature extensively in today's global economyYet in spite of its cultural and economic significance, this vast terrain of power is rarely examined, and rarer still from the ground up. McCracken's delightful, well executed and very informative study changes this. Read her book and ponder its intriguing insights regarding the agency of women and youth, constructions of gender and race, dynamics of cultural transformation, and how power operates in the global business of beauty. * V. Spike Peterson, Professor of International Relations, University of Arizona *

Angela B. McCracken is the Director of the the University of Southern California's Regional Office for Global Initiatives in Mexico.

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ISBN 13	9780199908066
ISBN 10	0199908060
Titel	The Beauty Trade
Autor	Angela B Mccracken
Serie	Oxford Studies In Gender And International Relations
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Oxford University Press Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2014-02-27
Seitenanzahl	224
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.