"Explores how modern women have overdeveloped their masculine attributes, complicating their lives, relationships, and society."--Page 4 of cover.
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Drawing on fieldwork conducted in three penal establishments in England, this book explores how power is negotiated in women's prisons. It analyses how women manage the restrictions and how they attempt to resist institutional control.
"Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon illuminates how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade of independence in Cameroon, a west-central African country. Drawing upon history, political sc…
"Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon illuminates how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade of independence in Cameroon, a west-central African country. Drawing upon history, political sc…
"Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon illuminates how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade of independence in Cameroon, a west-central African country. Drawing upon history, political sc…
"The Global Beauty Industry is an interdisciplinary text that uses beauty to explore topics of gender, race, class, colorism, nation, bodies, multiculturalism, transnationalism, and intersectionality. Integrating materials from a wide range of cultural and geo-political contexts…
I. Beauty as structural inequality : beauty, feminist protests, nationalism, neoliberal femininity -- II. Black is beautiful : anti-racist beauty aesthetics and cultural resistance -- III. Globalization, Indian beauty nationalism, and colorism : class, caste, and gender stratifi…
The Global Beauty Industry" is an interdisciplinary text that uses beauty to explore topics of gender, race, class, colorism, nation, bodies, multiculturalism, transnationalism, and intersectionality. Integrating materials from a wide range of cultural and geo-political contexts…
The Global Beauty Industry is an interdisciplinary text that uses beauty to explore topics of gender, race, class, colorism, nation, bodies, multiculturalism, transnationalism, and intersectionality. Integrating materials from a wide range of cultural and geo-political contexts,…
"The Global Beauty Industry is an interdisciplinary text that uses beauty to explore topics of gender, race, class, colorism, nation, bodies, multiculturalism, transnationalism, and intersectionality. Integrating materials from a wide range of cultural and geo-political contexts…
This book examines the concept of identity in a globalized world and the way in which agency is exercised over identity construction by women working in India's transnational call centre industry. Based on rich empirical data and original fieldwork, the author provides a nuanced…