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BEAUTY AROUND THE WORLD: A CULTURAL ENCYCLOPEDIA

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<P>Taking the concept of beauty seriously, this encyclopedia examines how humanity has sought and continues to seek what is "beautiful" in a variety of cultural contexts, giving readers an understanding of how to look at beauty both intellectually and critically.</P>

Beauty around the World

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Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
List of Entries.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
1: Acne and Acne Treatments.
2: Advertising.
3: Airbrushing.
4: Apatani Tribe, India.
5: Argentina.
6: Baldness.
7: Barbershop.
8: Barbie.
9: Bathing and Showering.
10: Bbw (Big, Beautiful Woman).
11: Bindi.
12: &#x201C;Black is Beautiful Movement,&#x201D; or Black Power.
13: Blondes and Blonde Hair.
14: Bodybuilding.
15: Body Dysmorphic Disorder.
16: Body Modification.
17: Body Positivity.
18: Botox.
19: Brazil.
20: Breast Augmentation and Reduction Surgeries.
21: Breast Binding (Chest Binding).
22: Breast Ironing.
23: Breasts.
24: Brunettes and Black Hair.
25: Bunda.
26: Burlesque.
27: Burqa.
28: Buttocks Lifts and Implants.
29: Butts and Booty.
30: The Caribbean.
31: Chemical Peels and Fillers.
32: China.
33: Class.
34: Corn Rows (&#x201C;Cane Rows&#x201D;).
35: Corsets, Shapewear, and Waist Trainers.
36: Dance-Hall Beauty: Skin Out and Bling.
37: D&#x00E9;colletage.
38: Dental Hygiene and Cosmetic Dentistry.
39: Deodorant and Antiperspirants.
40: Disciplinary Practices/Disciplinary Power.
41: Dove Campaign for Real Beauty.
42: Drag.
43: Dreadlocks.
44: Eating Disorders.
45: Egypt.
46: Elongated Labia.
47: Exoticize.
48: Eye Color.
49: Eye Shape.
50: Eyebrows.
51: Eyelid Surgery.
52: Facelifts.
53: Facial Hair.
54: Feminism.
55: Fetish.
56: Footbinding.
57: Geisha.
58: Gender.
59: Goth and Gothic.
60: Greece.
61: Grillz (Grills).
62: Hair.
63: Hair Dye.
64: Hair Extensions and Weaves.
65: Hair Removal.
66: Hair Straightening.
67: Headbinding.
68: Height.
69: High Heels.
70: Hijab.
71: Himba of Namibia (Herero, Ovahimba).
72: Hourglass Shape.
73: India.
74: Indonesia.
75: Injections.
76: Iran.
77: Italy.
78: Japan.
79: Jewelry.
80: Kayan (Karen) Neck Rings (&#x201C;Padaung Neck Rings&#x201D;).
81: Kayapo.
82: Labiaplasty.
83: Leg Lengthening Surgery.
84: Liposuction.
85: Lip Plates.
86: Lips.
87: Lipstick and Lip Tattoos.
88: Long Earlobes.
89: Maasai.
90: Magazines.
91: Makeup and Cosmetics.
92: Male Gaze.
93: Manicure.
94: Mannequin.
95: Manscaping.
96: Masculinity.
97: Maya.
98: Mehendi (Hina, Henna).
99: Metrosexual.
100: Mexico.
101: Moko Tattoos.
102: Monroe, Marilyn.
103: Narcissism.
104: Nose Jobs.
105: Obesity.
106: Orientalism.
107: The &#x201C;Other&#x201D;.
108: Otoplasty.
109: Pageants, Indigenous.
110: Pageants&#x2014;International, National, and Local Contests.
111: Pageants&#x2014;Transpageants.
112: Pedicure.
113: Performance/Performativity.
114: Perfumes and Scented Oils.
115: Piercing.
116: Plastic Surgery.
117: Pomade.
118: Progressive Muscularity.
119: Red Hair/Ginger.
120: Ritual Cleansing (Ritual Purification).
121: Salons.
122: Scarification.
123: Sexy.
124: Shea Butter.
125: Skin Tone.
126: Skin Whitening.
127: Social Construction of Beauty.
128: Sousa, Osmel.
129: South Korea.
130: Supermodels.
131: Symmetry.
132: Tanning.
133: Tattoos.
134: Teeth Blackening.
135: Tooth Chipping (Teeth Chiseling, Teeth Modification, Tooth Sharpening).
136: Tuareg.
137: United Kingdom.
138: United States.
139: Vanity.
140: Venezuela.
141: Walker, Madame C. J..
142: Weight.
143: Wife Fattening.
144: Wodaabe Fulani (Niger).
145: Wrinkles.
146: Wudu.
147: Yaeba (Tooth Crowding).
148: Youth.
Appendix: Opposing Viewpoints.
Question 1: Psychology with a Scalpel: Does Cosmetic Surgery Boost Self-Esteem?.
Response 1: Psychology with a Scalpel: Yes, Cosmetic Surgery Boosts Self-Esteem.
Response 2: Cosmetic Surgery: Boon or Bane?.
Question 2: Is Beauty a Biological Imperative or a Cultural Preference?.
Response 1: What Could You Expect from a Nation that Has Won a Total of 22 International Beauty Pageants?.
Response 2: On the Irrelevance of Genetics.
Question 3: The Rise of the Transgendered Beauty Pageant: Is Biology a Fixed Category?.
Response 1: Transgender Beauty Pageants: An Imperfect Solution.
Response 2: Transgender Pageants: An Occasion for Celebration.
Question 4: If Beauty Is Only Skin Deep, Why Is It So Important?.
Response 1: Beauty and the Law.
Response 2: Language is Skin Deep&#x2014;A Glance at Metaphorical Beauty.
Question 5: How is Men&#x2019;s Beauty Increasingly Commodified?.
Response 1: Men&#x2019;s Beauty.
Response 2: Subtle Play by Mr. Gray.
Selected Bibliography.
About the Authors and Contributors.
Index.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
List of Entries.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
1: Acne and Acne Treatments.
2: Advertising.
3: Airbrushing.
4: Apatani Tribe, India.
5: Argentina.
6: Baldness.
7: Barbershop.
8: Barbie.
9: Bathing and Showering.
10: Bbw (Big, Beautiful Woman).
11: Bindi.
12: &#x201C;Black is Beautiful Movement,&#x201D; or Black Power.
13: Blondes and Blonde Hair.
14: Bodybuilding.
15: Body Dysmorphic Disorder.
16: Body Modification.
17: Body Positivity.
18: Botox.
19: Brazil.
20: Breast Augmentation and Reduction Surgeries.
21: Breast Binding (Chest Binding).
22: Breast Ironing.
23: Breasts.
24: Brunettes and Black Hair.
25: Bunda.
26: Burlesque.
27: Burqa.
28: Buttocks Lifts and Implants.
29: Butts and Booty.
30: The Caribbean.
31: Chemical Peels and Fillers.
32: China.
33: Class.
34: Corn Rows (&#x201C;Cane Rows&#x201D;).
35: Corsets, Shapewear, and Waist Trainers.
36: Dance-Hall Beauty: Skin Out and Bling.
37: D&#x00E9;colletage.
38: Dental Hygiene and Cosmetic Dentistry.
39: Deodorant and Antiperspirants.
40: Disciplinary Practices/Disciplinary Power.
41: Dove Campaign for Real Beauty.
42: Drag.
43: Dreadlocks.
44: Eating Disorders.
45: Egypt.
46: Elongated Labia.
47: Exoticize.
48: Eye Color.
49: Eye Shape.
50: Eyebrows.
51: Eyelid Surgery.
52: Facelifts.
53: Facial Hair.
54: Feminism.
55: Fetish.
56: Footbinding.
57: Geisha.
58: Gender.
59: Goth and Gothic.
60: Greece.
61: Grillz (Grills).
62: Hair.
63: Hair Dye.
64: Hair Extensions and Weaves.
65: Hair Removal.
66: Hair Straightening.
67: Headbinding.
68: Height.
69: High Heels.
70: Hijab.
71: Himba of Namibia (Herero, Ovahimba).
72: Hourglass Shape.
73: India.
74: Indonesia.
75: Injections.
76: Iran.
77: Italy.
78: Japan.
79: Jewelry.
80: Kayan (Karen) Neck Rings (&#x201C;Padaung Neck Rings&#x201D;).
81: Kayapo.
82: Labiaplasty.
83: Leg Lengthening Surgery.
84: Liposuction.
85: Lip Plates.
86: Lips.
87: Lipstick and Lip Tattoos.
88: Long Earlobes.
89: Maasai.
90: Magazines.
91: Makeup and Cosmetics.
92: Male Gaze.
93: Manicure.
94: Mannequin.
95: Manscaping.
96: Masculinity.
97: Maya.
98: Mehendi (Hina, Henna).
99: Metrosexual.
100: Mexico.
101: Moko Tattoos.
102: Monroe, Marilyn.
103: Narcissism.
104: Nose Jobs.
105: Obesity.
106: Orientalism.
107: The &#x201C;Other&#x201D;.
108: Otoplasty.
109: Pageants, Indigenous.
110: Pageants&#x2014;International, National, and Local Contests.
111: Pageants&#x2014;Transpageants.
112: Pedicure.
113: Performance/Performativity.
114: Perfumes and Scented Oils.
115: Piercing.
116: Plastic Surgery.
117: Pomade.
118: Progressive Muscularity.
119: Red Hair/Ginger.
120: Ritual Cleansing (Ritual Purification).
121: Salons.
122: Scarification.
123: Sexy.
124: Shea Butter.
125: Skin Tone.
126: Skin Whitening.
127: Social Construction of Beauty.
128: Sousa, Osmel.
129: South Korea.
130: Supermodels.
131: Symmetry.
132: Tanning.
133: Tattoos.
134: Teeth Blackening.
135: Tooth Chipping (Teeth Chiseling, Teeth Modification, Tooth Sharpening).
136: Tuareg.
137: United Kingdom.
138: United States.
139: Vanity.
140: Venezuela.
141: Walker, Madame C. J..
142: Weight.
143: Wife Fattening.
144: Wodaabe Fulani (Niger).
145: Wrinkles.
146: Wudu.
147: Yaeba (Tooth Crowding).
148: Youth.
Appendix: Opposing Viewpoints.
Question 1: Psychology with a Scalpel: Does Cosmetic Surgery Boost Self-Esteem?.
Response 1: Psychology with a Scalpel: Yes, Cosmetic Surgery Boosts Self-Esteem.
Response 2: Cosmetic Surgery: Boon or Bane?.
Question 2: Is Beauty a Biological Imperative or a Cultural Preference?.
Response 1: What Could You Expect from a Nation that Has Won a Total of 22 International Beauty Pageants?.
Response 2: On the Irrelevance of Genetics.
Question 3: The Rise of the Transgendered Beauty Pageant: Is Biology a Fixed Category?.
Response 1: Transgender Beauty Pageants: An Imperfect Solution.
Response 2: Transgender Pageants: An Occasion for Celebration.
Question 4: If Beauty Is Only Skin Deep, Why Is It So Important?.
Response 1: Beauty and the Law.
Response 2: Language is Skin Deep&#x2014;A Glance at Metaphorical Beauty.
Question 5: How is Men&#x2019;s Beauty Increasingly Commodified?.
Response 1: Men&#x2019;s Beauty.
Response 2: Subtle Play by Mr. Gray.
Selected Bibliography.
About the Authors and Contributors.
Index.

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