Posts Tagged ‘Body’
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 science and popular culture sources to connect breast enhancements, eyelid surgery, body hair removal, nipple bleaching,
Encyclopedia of Body Adornment
// // People everywhere have attempted to change their bodies in an effort to meet their cultural standards of beauty, as well as their religious and/or social obligations. Often times, this modification or adornment of their bodies is part of the complex process of creating and re-creating personal and social identities. Body painting has probably been practiced since the Paleolithic