The Harms of Beauty

Sam Barnes (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

172 Seiten

2025
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-3533-3 (ISBN)

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The beauty industry thrives on creating a sense of dissatisfaction with appearance, with social media adding pressure to conform to idealized images of beauty. This has led to a growing use of products for bodily improvement such as facial injectables and weight loss drugs, which have arguably become increasingly normalized throughout society.

This groundbreaking ethnographic study lifts the lid on the dark side of beauty – revealing why young people are willing to inflict self-harm in the pursuit of ‘perfection’ and exploring the motivations for using, buying and selling counterfeit beauty products and services.

Sam Barnes is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Arden University.

1.Introduction

2.Contemporary Subjectivity and Hyper-Comparison

3.The Changing Nature of Beauty, Enhancement and Harm

4.The Contemporary Seller and the Myth of the ‘Organized Criminal’

5.Consuming (Counterfeit) Beauty; Consuming Aesthetic Pleasure

6.From Filters to Fillers: The Real-Life Instagram Face

7.Botox, Booze and ‘Bonding’

8.Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	29.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Social Harm
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-5292-3533-2 / 1529235332
ISBN-13	978-1-5292-3533-3 / 9781529235333
Zustand	Neuware