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Styling Masculinity : Gender, Class, and Inequality in the Men's Grooming Industry /

"The twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a new style of man: the metrosexual. Overwhelmingly straight, white, and wealthy, these impeccably coiffed urban professionals spend big money on everything from facials to pedicures, all part of a multibillion-dollar male grooming industry. Y...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Barber, Kristen (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2016.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Men and beauty: the historical expansion of an industry
  • Rocks glasses and color camo: selling beauty to class-privileged men
  • Heterosexual aesthetic labor: hiring and requiring women beauty workers
  • Hair care: emotional labor and touching rules in men's grooming
  • "We're men's women": occupational choice narratives of sameness and difference.