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The intimate apparel business is undergoing major technological change. New measurement and design techniques, combined with innovative materials and production methods, are transforming the range, quality and applications of women's lingerie. This important book provides an authoritative review of these developmentsAfter an introductory chapter on the concept of body beauty, a first group of chapters discuss innovations in the manufacture of brassieres, including developments in breast measurement and sizing, innovations in bra design and improvements in bra pattern technology. The fo

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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.

Human body --- Beauty, Personal --- Beauty culture --- Body image --- Philosophy, Japanese. --- Japanese philosophy --- Image, Body --- Imagery (Psychology) --- Mind and body --- Person schemas --- Personality --- Self-perception --- Cosmetology --- Beauty shops --- Cosmetics --- Beauty --- Complexion --- Grooming, Personal --- Grooming for women --- Personal beauty --- Personal grooming --- Toilet (Grooming) --- Hygiene --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Social aspects --- Japan --- Social life and customs. --- J4154 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- customs, folklore and culture -- the body, personal hygiene, bathing --- aesthetic salons. --- beauty culture. --- beauty ideals. --- beauty industry. --- beauty language. --- beauty standards. --- beauty work. --- body aesthetics. --- body hair removal. --- consumer society. --- contemporary history. --- contemporary japan. --- cosmetic surgery. --- cultural criticism. --- diet and health. --- elective surgery. --- gender ideology. --- identity management. --- japanese culture. --- japanese men. --- japanese women. --- male beauty. --- men and women. --- nonfiction. --- plastic surgery. --- popular culture. --- social science.

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This original analysis of the representation and self-representation of women in literature and visual arts revolves around multiple early modern senses of "painting": the creation of visual art in the form of paint on canvas and the use of cosmetics to paint women's bodies. Situating her study in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy, France, and England, Patricia Phillippy brings together three distinct actors: women who paint themselves with cosmetics, women who paint on canvas, and women and men who paint women - either with pigment or with words. Phillippy asserts that early modern attitudes toward painting, cosmetics, and poetry emerge from and respond to a common cultural history. Materially, she connects those who created images of women with pigment to those who applied cosmetics to their own bodies through similar mediums, tools, techniques, and exposure to toxic materials. Discursively, she illuminates historical and social issues such as gender and morality with the nexus of painting, painted women, and women painters. Teasing out the intricate relationships between these activities as carried out by women and their visual and literary representation by women and by men, Phillippy aims to reveal the delineation and transgression of women's creative roles, both artistic and biological. In "Painting Women", Phillippy provides a cross-disciplinary study of women as objects and agents of painting.

Painting --- History of civilization --- Literature --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Europe --- 7.071.1-055.2 --- Vrouwelijke kunstenaars --- Arts, European --- Cosmetics --- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) --- Gender identity in art. --- Women in art. --- Social aspects --- 7.071.1-055.2 Vrouwelijke kunstenaars --- Gender identity in art --- Women in art --- Beauty aids --- Complexion --- Make-up (Cosmetics) --- Makeup (Cosmetics) --- Costume --- Beauty, Personal --- Beauty culture --- Toilet preparations --- European arts --- Ideal beautiful women --- Aesthetics