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The risky business of postfeminist beauty
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posted on 2023-06-09, 02:56 authored by Simidele DosekunThis chapter explores the risks involved in women’s beauty practice under conditions of neoliberal postfeminism, drawing on a research project on young Nigerian women who fashion themselves in ‘spectacularly feminine style.’ It argues that with the postfeminist intensification of beauty norms, attended by the commodified proliferation of beauty technologies, the pursuit of beauty comes to pose heightened embodied and psychic risks for women. The chapter explores the research participants’ constructions of their ‘choice’ to take on such risk and their strategies to manage and mitigate it. It proposes the new theoretical concepts of ‘aesthetic vigilance’ and ‘aesthetic rest’ as entrepreneurial practices of risk-managing one’s attachments to beauty and its technologies so as to better maintain rather than resist them.
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Palgrave McMillanPages
272.0Book title
Aesthetic labour: rethinking beauty politics in neoliberalismISBN
9781137477644Department affiliated with
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Christina Scharff, Ana Sofia Elias, Rosalind GillLegacy Posted Date
2016-09-19Usage metrics
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