Appearance as capital : the normative regulation of aesthetic capital accumulation and conversion
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. 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. Takin...
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| Other Authors | , , , |
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
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Bingley, U.K. :
Emerald Publishing Limited,
2021.
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| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781800437104 |
| DOI | 10.1108/9781800437081 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xi, 179 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.