TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jeffreys,Sheila
TI  - Beauty and misogyny: harmful cultural practices in the West 
T2  - Women and psychology
SN  - 9781317675440
AV  - HQ1219 .J44 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Hove, East Sussex, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
KW  - Human body
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Women
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Health and hygiene
KW  - Women in popular culture
KW  - Misogyny
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The 'grip of culture on the body': beauty practices as women's agency or women's subordination -- Harmful cultural practices and Western culture -- Transfemininity: 'dressed' men reveal the naked reality of male power -- Pornochic: prostitution constructs beauty -- Fashion and misogyny -- Making up is hard to do -- Men's foot and shoe fetishism, and the disabling of women -- Cutting up women: beauty practices as self-mutilation by proxy
N2  - The new edition of Beauty and Misogyny revisits and updates Sheila Jeffreys' uncompromising critique of Western beauty practice and the industries and ideologies behind it. Jeffreys argues that beauty practices are not related to individual female choice or creative expression, but represent instead an important aspect of women's oppression. As these practices have become increasingly brutal and pervasive, the need to scrutinize and dismantle them is if anything more urgent now as it was in 2005 when the first edition of the book was published. The United Nations concept of ""harmful tradition
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