While empirical studies provide details about the local practices and interpretations of beauty, it makes sense to discuss Latin American beauty ideology or ideologies in general because of the shared history of colonialism and the way that beauty images travel easily across national borders in this region today. These images do not dictate, but do inform, the way that women (and men) fashion their bodies in Latin American societies. The purpose of this essay is to develop a theory of Latin American beauty ideologies that is grounded in but moves beyond the empirical research on this topic. Rather than providing an exhaustive typology, I suggest some concepts worth considering, with the aim of stimulating academic debate and discussion. I i...
Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2014Groundings for an Ideology of Race: From Medieval I...
The Biopolitics of Beauty examines how beauty became an aim of national health in Brazil. Based on e...
For the understanding of this article it is important to expose some historical reflections on aesth...
This article presents reflections that allow us to analyze the concept of beauty linked to black bod...
This text presents the special issue Beauty contests in Latin America published in the Journal de la...
<p>This dissertation examines how perceptions of beauty in Brazil reflect both the existing social i...
Science has criticized standardization and alienation of body beauty caused by consumerism with comp...
In Brazil racial mixture, mestiçagem, has been a dominant theme in the political and cultural re-ima...
This dissertation interrogates the role of fashion at representative junctures in nineteenth- and tw...
This article aims to present and discuss the representation of the beauty of women in different cult...
Hair is epistemology, as well as an element from which the identity of otherness is suppressed. The ...
Restricted until 05 Feb. 2011.This dissertation argues that there is a global political economy of b...
This dissertation focuses on dominant contemporary depictions of women in order to investigate the r...
This article presents the results of a qualitative study of the perceptions held and bodily practice...
This study sought to explore if and how Latinas use of beauty products (cosmetics) was influenced by...
Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2014Groundings for an Ideology of Race: From Medieval I...
The Biopolitics of Beauty examines how beauty became an aim of national health in Brazil. Based on e...
For the understanding of this article it is important to expose some historical reflections on aesth...
This article presents reflections that allow us to analyze the concept of beauty linked to black bod...
This text presents the special issue Beauty contests in Latin America published in the Journal de la...
<p>This dissertation examines how perceptions of beauty in Brazil reflect both the existing social i...
Science has criticized standardization and alienation of body beauty caused by consumerism with comp...
In Brazil racial mixture, mestiçagem, has been a dominant theme in the political and cultural re-ima...
This dissertation interrogates the role of fashion at representative junctures in nineteenth- and tw...
This article aims to present and discuss the representation of the beauty of women in different cult...
Hair is epistemology, as well as an element from which the identity of otherness is suppressed. The ...
Restricted until 05 Feb. 2011.This dissertation argues that there is a global political economy of b...
This dissertation focuses on dominant contemporary depictions of women in order to investigate the r...
This article presents the results of a qualitative study of the perceptions held and bodily practice...
This study sought to explore if and how Latinas use of beauty products (cosmetics) was influenced by...
Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2014Groundings for an Ideology of Race: From Medieval I...
The Biopolitics of Beauty examines how beauty became an aim of national health in Brazil. Based on e...
For the understanding of this article it is important to expose some historical reflections on aesth...