Beauty up : exploring contemporary Japanese body aesthetics / Laura Miller.
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TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 256 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520938847
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- Human body -- Social aspects -- Japan
- Beauty, Personal -- Japan
- Beauty culture -- Japan
- Body image -- Japan
- Philosophy, Japanese
- Japan -- Social life and customs
- Corps humain -- Aspect social -- Japon
- Image du corps -- Japon
- Philosophie japonaise
- Japon -- Mœurs et coutumes
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- Beauty culture
- Beauty, Personal
- Body image
- Human body -- Social aspects
- Manners and customs
- Philosophy, Japanese
- Japan
- aesthetic salons
- beauty culture
- beauty ideals
- beauty industry
- beauty language
- beauty standards
- beauty work
- body aesthetics
- body hair removal
- consumer society
- contemporary history
- contemporary japan
- cosmetic surgery
- cultural criticism
- diet and health
- elective surgery
- gender ideology
- identity management
- japanese culture
- japanese men
- japanese women
- male beauty
- men and women
- nonfiction
- plastic surgery
- popular culture
- social science
- 306.4/0952 22
- GT497.J3 B43 2006eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-239) and index.
Introduction: approaches to body aesthetics and the beauty system -- Changing beauty ideology -- Aesthetic salons -- Mammary mania -- Body fashion and beauty etiquette -- Male beauty work -- The well-behaved appetite -- The language of esute -- Esute power.
Print version record.
An introduction to Japan's burgeoning beauty culture, which investigates a 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. It aims to challenge various assumptions about the naturalness of beauty standards.
English.
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