ISBN:
9781137299703
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1137299703
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 285 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
Worlds of consumption
DDC:
306.3
Keywords:
Geschichte 1900-2000
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Beauty, Personal
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Aesthetics
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Beauty culture
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Schönheitsideal
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Körper
;
Mode
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Kosmetik
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Konsumgesellschaft
;
Verbraucherverhalten
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Schönheitsideal
;
Körper
;
Mode
;
Kosmetik
;
Konsumgesellschaft
;
Verbraucherverhalten
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
Abstract:
Beauty matters. Throughout the world, more and more people from all walks of life spend time and money to make themselves beautiful because beauty expresses identity and shapes status and success. Whether white or black, male or female, young or old, gay or straight, working- or middle-class, Western or non-Western, democratic or fascist, people everywhere have adopted a central maxim of the twentieth century: everyone can be beautiful, and everyone should become beautiful. This volume tracks the historical roots and meanings of modern beauty cultures in the twentieth century, drawing on examples from Europe, North America, the Near East, Asia, and Africa
Note:
"It makes princes of those who have it" : beauty and consumerism in the twentieth century
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Cosmopolitan attempts in interwar Europe. Miss Germany, Miss Europe, Miss Universe : beauty pageants in the popular media of the Weimar Republic
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Appropriations and agency in Africa and Asia. Contesting beauty concepts in precolonial and colonial Kenya : hierarchy, resistance, and identity
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