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Istanbul Appearances : Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey /

"Using ethnographic fieldwork carried out in beauty salons and clinics in different parts of Istanbul between 2011 and 2015, the manuscript argues that the study of embodied beauty offers unique insights into the gender dynamics and the politics of social and political reproduction amidst the r...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Liebelt, Claudia (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, [2022]
Édition:First Edition.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Istanbul appearances: An introduction
  • Istanbul, the "beautifying city"
  • "For a more beautiful Turkey": The urban beauty service sector
  • The multiple meanings of feminine beauty
  • Aging "well" in urban Turkey
  • Reshaping "Turkish" breasts and noses
  • Becoming prezentabl
  • Feminine self-fashioning in times of change.