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Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics
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Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics Paperback - 2006 - 1st Edition

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This engaging introduction to Japan's burgeoning beauty culture investigates a wide range of phenomenon--aesthetic salons, dieting products, male beauty activities, and beauty language--to find out why Japanese women and men are paying so much attention to their bodies. Laura Miller uses social science and popular culture sources to connect breast enhancements, eyelid surgery, body hair removal, nipple bleaching, and other beauty work to larger issues of gender ideology, the culturally-constructed nature of beauty ideals, and the globalization of beauty technologies and standards. Her sophisticated treatment of this timely topic suggests that new body aesthetics are not forms of "deracializiation" but rather innovative experimentation with identity management. While recognizing that these beauty activities are potentially a form of resistance, Miller also considers the commodification of beauty, exploring how new ideals and technologies are tying consumers even more firmly to an ever-expanding beauty industry. By considering beauty in a Japanese context, Miller challenges widespread assumptions about the universality and naturalness of beauty standards.

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"This is a very well researched, thoughtful, and engagingly written study of some of the hottest areas of Japan's beauty industry. Always careful to avoid easy generalizations or clichs about Japanese culture, Miller shows both the diversity of Japanese beauty practices and perceptions, and their dramatic shifts in recent years. Her critical yet sensitive descriptions of Japan's consumers and her critiques of Euro-American understandings about them will leave the reader reflecting as much about the 'West' as about Japan."--Takashi Fujitani, author of Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan

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  • Title Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics
  • Author Laura Miller
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 271
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2006-07-15
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780520245099 / 0520245091
  • Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.06 x 0.72 in (22.86 x 15.39 x 1.83 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Women's Studies
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress subjects Japan - Social life and customs, Philosophy, Japanese
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005016386
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.409

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Laura Miller, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Loyola University Chicago, is Past President of the Society for East Asian Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, and coeditor, with Jan Bardsley, of Bad Girls of Japan (2005).

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