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Appearance as capital the normative regulation of aesthetic capital accumulation and conversion /

"In an era of hyper visuality, service-based labour markets, consumer culture, and times of uncertainty, physical appearance plays an increasingly important role in producing and reinforcing social inequalities. Taking a sociological approach, the authors of Appearance as Capital examine physic...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sarpila, Outi (Editor ), Kukkonen, Lida (Editor ), Pajunen, Tero (Editor ), Åberg, Erica (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing, 2022.
Edición:First edition 2022.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Accumulating a gendered form of capital
  • Chapter 1. Physical appearance as a form of capital: Key problems and tensions / Iida Kukkonen
  • Chapter 2. Who performs appearance work, and who believes appearance works? Gendered appearance beliefs and practices in Finland / Iida Kukkonen
  • Chapter 3. The metrosexual who never visited Finland
  • the eternal gender gap in appearance-related consumption / Outi Sarpila
  • Chapter 4. Seeking age-appropriate appearance among ageing men / Hanna Ojala and Ilkka Pietilä PART II. CONTESTED CONVERSIONS
  • EVERYDAY (RE)WORKINGS OF AESTHETIC CAPITAL
  • Chapter 5. Too smart-looking for a waiter?
  • scripting appearance norms at the theatre of working-life / Tero Pajunen
  • Chapter 6. Generating aesthetic capital: Prospects from autobiographical narratives / Tero Pajunen
  • Chapter 7. The ouroboros of seeking validation? Exploring the interconnection of appearance (dis)satisfaction and content creation on social media / Erica Åberg and Aki Koivula
  • Chapter 8. Sofie's world: Resistance toward the thin ideal in sofie hagen's fat activist online content / Anna Puhakka
  • Chapter 9. Well-beshaved women rarely make history
  • exploring the contestation of the hairless beauty ideal with case #januhairy / Erica Åberg and Laura Salonen.