Embodiment and Representations of Beauty

Beauty embodiment and representations of beauty are crafted by legitimised hierarchies of power in popular culture, including...
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Author: Esther Hern?ndez-Medina
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Language: English
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Embodiment and Representations of Beauty by Hern?ndez-Medina, Esther

Embodiment and Representations of Beauty

$430.63

Embodiment and Representations of Beauty

$430.63
Author: Esther Hern?ndez-Medina
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Beauty embodiment and representations of beauty are crafted by legitimised hierarchies of power in popular culture, including across fashion, sports, media and social media outlets, and the arts. Informed and guided by an intersectional lens with a focus on underrepresented communities, this volume of Advances in Gender Research foregrounds gender and sexuality to engage with beauty as a site of knowledge creation.

Interrogating its very definition, chapters take a revolutionary, intersectional approach to explore beauty as an avenue to create alternative knowledge as well as a conduit to engage in critical conversations on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, illness, and fitness. Emphasizing that beauty definitions and standards in any given society closely reflect the distribution of power within it, contributors think critically about the role of institutions such as the hair industry, workplaces, the visual arts, and classical dance in how beauty is socially construed and conceptualized.

Grounded in a more open-ended conception that goes beyond aesthetics, Embodiment and Representations of Beauty celebrates beauty's capacity as a source of liberation, agency, social justice, decolonization, and survival for marginalized communities, as well as an emancipatory path to feminist liberation.



Author: Esther Hern?ndez-Medina
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Published: 09/06/2024
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781837979943

About the Author

Esther Hernández-Medina is Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies and Gender and Women's Studies at Pomona College, USA, as well as a feminist academic, public policy expert, and activist originally from the Dominican Republic.

Sharina Maíllo-Pozo is Assistant Professor of Latinx studies in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Georgia, USA. In 2021, she was the recipient of the Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching Award.


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