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'Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices' critically examines a longstanding colonial fascination with the black female body as an object of sexual desire, envy, and anxiety. Since the 2002 repatriation of the remains of Sara Baartman to post-apartheid South Africa, the interest in the figure of Black Venus has skyrocketed, making her a key symbol for the restoration of the racialized female body in feminist, anti-racist and postcolonial terms. Edited by Jorunn Gjerden, Kari Jegerstedt, and Zeljka Svrljuga, this volume considers Black Venus as a product of art established and potentially refigured through aesthetic practices, following her travels through different periods, geographies and art forms from Baudelaire to Kara Walker, and from the Caribbean to Scandinavia.

Aesthetics --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- essays --- postcolonialism --- Venus [Mythological character] --- Noires --- Beauté féminine (esthétique) --- Dans l'art --- Dans l'art. --- Women, Black, in art. --- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) --- Ideal beautiful women --- Women in art

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For centuries, Japanese culture, including ideals of feminine beauty, was profoundly shaped by China. In this first full comparative history on the subject, Cho Kyo explores changing standards of beauty in China and Japan, ranging from plumpness to bound feet to blackened teeth. Drawing on a rich array of sources gathered over a decade of research, he considers which Chinese representations were rejected or accepted and transformed in Japan. He then traces the introduction of Western aesthetics into Japan starting in the Meiji era, leading to slowly developing but radical changes in the repres

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) --- Ideal beautiful women --- Aesthetics --- Women in art --- History. --- J4176 --- J6020 --- S11/0710 --- S17/0430 --- History --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- gender roles, women, feminism --- Japan: Art and antiquities -- Japanese aesthetics (Japonism) --- China: Social sciences--Women: general and before 1949 --- China: Art and archaeology--Esthetics

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The story of how and why some women choose to use, while others refuse, cosmetic intervention.What is it like to be a woman growing older in a culture where you cannot go to the doctor, open a magazine, watch television, or surf the internet without encountering products and procedures that are designed to make you look younger? What do women have to say about their decision to embrace cosmetic anti-aging procedures? And, alternatively, how do women come to decide to grow older without them? In the United States today, women are the overwhelming consumers of cosmetic anti-aging surgeries and technologies. And while not all women undergo these procedures, their exposure to them is almost inevitable.Set against the backdrop of commercialized medicine in the United States, Abigail T. Brooks investigates the anti-aging craze from the perspective of women themselves, examining the rapidly changing cultural attitudes, pressures, and expectations of female aging. Drawn from in-depth interviews with women in the United States who choose, and refuse, to have cosmetic anti-aging procedures, The Ways Women Age provides a fresh understanding of how today’s women feel about aging. The women’s stories in this book are personal biographies that explore identity and body image and are reflexively shaped by beauty standards, expectations of femininity, and an increasingly normalized climate of cosmetic anti-aging intervention. The Ways Women Age offers a critical perspective on how women respond to 21st century expectations of youth and beauty.The story of how and why some women choose to use, while others refuse, cosmetic intervention.What is it like to be a woman growing older in a culture where you cannot go to the doctor, open a magazine, watch television, or surf the internet without encountering products and procedures that are designed to make you look younger? What do women have to say about their decision to embrace cosmetic anti-aging procedures? And, alternatively, how do women come to decide to grow older without them? In the United States today, women are the overwhelming consumers of cosmetic anti-aging surgeries and technologies. And while not all women undergo these procedures, their exposure to them is almost inevitable.Set against the backdrop of commercialized medicine in the United States, Abigail T. Brooks investigates the anti-aging craze from the perspective of women themselves, examining the rapidly changing cultural attitudes, pressures, and expectations of female aging. Drawn from in-depth interviews with women in the United States who choose, and refuse, to have cosmetic anti-aging procedures, The Ways Women Age provides a fresh understanding of how today’s women feel about aging. The women’s stories in this book are personal biographies that explore identity and body image and are reflexively shaped by beauty standards, expectations of femininity, and an increasingly normalized climate of cosmetic anti-aging intervention. The Ways Women Age offers a critical perspective on how women respond to 21st century expectations of youth and beauty.

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) --- Older women. --- Aging --- Body image in women. --- Surgery, Plastic --- Aesthetic surgery --- Cosmetic surgery --- Plastic surgery --- Reconstructive surgery --- Surgery, Aesthetic --- Surgery, Cosmetic --- Surgery, Reconstructive --- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Plastic surgeons --- Women --- Aged women --- Older people --- Ideal beautiful women --- Aesthetics --- Women in art --- Psychological aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Psychology

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“A stimulating and timely contribution to the gender and language field! In this engaging work, Natalia Konstantinovskaia tackles the complex interrelations between beauty ideologies and women’s agency in Russia and Japan.” --Momoko Nakamura, Kanto Gakuin University, Japan This book conducts a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural study of 'women’s language' as it pertains to feminine beauty. It examines the ideological constructs of beauty and femininity in the cultures of Japan and Russia, as embodied through televised beauty ads, and relates them to the real-world language practices of Japanese and Russian women. The author traces the reciprocal connection between women’s real and imagined language in the construction of ideals of beauty and femininity, revealing the complex ways women respond to ideological expectations regarding language use: assimilating, transforming, and subverting ideologized language and the assumptions implicit in it. She also demonstrates ways in which women alter the texture of language by appropriating 'masculine' language for their own purposes, shifting the meaning and correlates of linguistic items and structures. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, language and gender, cultural and media studies, and Russian and Japanese culture. Natalia Konstantinovskaia is Senior Japanese Language Expert at Busuu in London, UK. She earned her PhD in Japanese Linguistics from the University of California, US.

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) --- Ideal beautiful women --- Aesthetics --- Women in art --- Sociolinguistics. --- Culture. --- Gender. --- Women. --- Discourse analysis. --- Language and Gender. --- Culture and Gender. --- Women's Studies. --- Discourse Analysis. --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects

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Leading feminist scholars have been brought together for the first time in this comprehensive volume to reveal the complexity of feminist engagements with the exponentially growing cosmetic surgery phenomenon. Offering a diversity of theoretical, methodological and political approaches Cosmetic Surgery: A Feminist Primer presents not only the latest, cutting-edge research in this field but a challenging and unique approach to the issue that will be of key interest to researchers across the social sciences and humanities.

Surgery, Plastic --- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) --- Body image in women. --- Feminist theory. --- Chirurgie plastique --- Beauté féminine (Esthétique) --- Image du corps chez la femme --- Théorie féministe --- Social aspects. --- Psychological aspects. --- Aspect social --- Aspect psychologique --- Feminism --- Feminist philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Theory of feminism --- Women --- Ideal beautiful women --- Aesthetics --- Women in art --- Aesthetic surgery --- Cosmetic surgery --- Plastic surgery --- Reconstructive surgery --- Surgery, Aesthetic --- Surgery, Cosmetic --- Surgery, Reconstructive --- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Plastic surgeons --- Philosophy --- Psychology