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Global Beauty, Local Bodies

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  1. Afshan Jafar
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Refashioning Global Bodies

    • Oluwakemi M. Balogun, Kimberly Kay Hoang
    Pages 1-21

  3. Aesthetic Labor, Racialization, and Aging in Tijuana’s Cosmopolitan Sex Industry

    • Susanne Hofmann
    Pages 23-50

  4. In Praise of Big Noses

    • Persis M. Karim
    Pages 51-58

  5. ¡Más que un Bocado! (More Than a Mouthful)

    • Michelle Newton-Francis, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz
    Pages 59-81

  6. Most Days I’m Beautiful

    • Kaija Bergen
    Pages 83-88

  7. Reproducing Beauty

    • Lucy Lowe
    Pages 89-116

  8. The Before-and-After Template

    • Jaita Talukdar
    Pages 117-123

  9. Metrosexuality as a Body Discourse

    • Jan Wickman, Fredrik Langeland
    Pages 125-150

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 151-185
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This collection of original scholarly work and first-person accounts takes globalization processes and the transnational links these processes create as the jumping-off point for an examination of what it means to be, have, or aspire to a beautiful body.

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"Beyond its international and transnational perspective, the uniqueness and strength of Global Beauty, Local Bodies lies in the richness of the questions raised by the essays. This is a well-conceived collection that will make a significant contribution to the available literature on the body." - Maxine B. Craig, Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies, Chair, DE in Feminist Theory and Research, University of California, Davis, USA

About the authors

Oluwakemi M. Balogun, Pomona College, USA Kimberly Kay Hoang, Boston College, USA Susanne Hofmann, The University of Manchester, UK Persis M. Karim, San Jose State University, USA Michelle Newton-Francis, American University, USA Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, American University, USA Kaija Bergen, Kampot Provincial Teacher Training College, Cambodia Lucy Lowe, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Jaita Talukdar, Loyola University, New Orleans, USA Jan Wickman, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Fredrik Langeland, University of Stavanger, Norway

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