Istanbul appearances beauty and the making of middle-class femininities in urban Turkey
Istanbul appearances: An introduction -- Istanbul, the "beautifying city" -- "For a more beautiful Turkey": The urban beauty service sector -- The multiple meanings of feminine beauty -- Aging "well" in urban Turkey -- Reshaping "Turkish" breasts and noses --...
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Syracuse, New York
Syracuse University Press
2023
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| Ausgabe: | First Edition |
| Schriftenreihe: | Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Istanbul appearances: An introduction -- Istanbul, the "beautifying city" -- "For a more beautiful Turkey": The urban beauty service sector -- The multiple meanings of feminine beauty -- Aging "well" in urban Turkey -- Reshaping "Turkish" breasts and noses -- Becoming prezentabl -- Feminine self-fashioning in times of change "Using ethnographic fieldwork carried out in beauty salons and clinics in different parts of Istanbul between 2011 and 2015, the manuscript argues that the study of embodied beauty offers unique insights into the gender dynamics and the politics of social and political reproduction amidst the recent conservative-authoritarian turn in Turkey"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | xiii, 321 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780815611561 978-0-8156-1156-1 9780815637905 978-0-8156-3790-5 |