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BL
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1044718
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b799088
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| Main Entry
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Gimlin, Debra L.,1967-
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| Title & Author
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Body work : : beauty and self-image in American culture /\ Debra L. Gimlin.
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| Publication Statement
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Berkeley :: University of California Press,, 2001.
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1 online resource (x, 171 pages)
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| ISBN
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0520210514
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: 0520228561
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: 0520926862
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: 0585466319
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: 1597345067
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: 9780520210516
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: 9780520228566
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: 9780520926868
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: 9780585466316
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: 9781597345064
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0520210514
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0520228561
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-163) and index.
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| Abstract
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"Beautifully written, cleverly argued, and skillfully researched, Debra Gimlin's Body Work goes beyond the argument that the beauty industry exists only to control women. Instead, Gimlin examines women's relationship to beauty from a feminist sociological perspective, finding that women are not dupes of the beauty industry but rather use body work in both empowering and degrading ways. It's about time a sociologist delved into women's complicated relationship to the beauty industry!"--Verta Taylor, author of Rock-a-By Baby: Feminism, Self-Help, and Postpartum Depression"This fascinating study r.
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Beauty culture-- Social aspects-- United States.
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Beauty, Personal-- Social aspects-- United States.
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Beauté corporelle-- Aspect social-- États-Unis.
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Soins de beauté-- Aspect social-- États-Unis.
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Beauty, Personal-- Social aspects.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Gender Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Popular Culture.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.4
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| LC Classification
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HQ1220.U5G56 2001eb
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LC 14610rvk
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