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The beauty industry : gender, culture, pleasure / Paula Black.

The beauty industry : gender, culture, pleasure / Paula Black.
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ISBN 0415321573 (pbk.)
0415321581 (cloth)
Author Black, Paula, 1966-
Title The beauty industry : gender, culture, pleasure / Paula Black.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher and/or associated date/s London ; New York, NY : Routledge, c2004.
Description ix, 214 p., 20 cm.
Note "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."
Bibliography Bibliographic references: p. 191-199
Contents 1. 'Ordinary people come through here' : introducing the work of the beauty salon -- 2. Inventing beauty : the history of the beauty salon -- 3. Just because it feels good doesn't make it right : identity in the beauty salon -- 4. The hidden labour of beauty -- 5. Look good, feel better : promoting health in the beauty salon -- 6. 'You feel better when you leave' : some concluding comments.
Subjects Beauty culture -- Great Britain
Beauty shops -- Great Britain
Beauty, Personal -- Great Britain
Body, Human -- Social aspects
Cosmetics industry
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- Great Britain
Mind and body
Call number 646.720941 BLA
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