Appearance as capital : the normative regulation of aesthetic capital accumulation and conversion /

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. In an era of hyper visuality, service-based labour markets, consumer culture, and times of uncertainty, physical appearance plays an increasingly important role in producing and reinforcing social inequalities. Takin...

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Altres autors: Sarpila, Outi (Editor), Kukkonen, Lida (Editor), Pajunen, Tero (Editor), Åberg, Erica (Editor)
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
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Accés en línia:https://doi.org/10.1108/9781800437081
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Taula de continguts:
  • Part I. Accumulating a gendered form of capital
  • Chapter 1. Physical appearance as a form of capital: Key problems and tensions / Iida Kukkonen
  • Chapter 2. Who performs appearance work, and who believes appearance works? Gendered appearance beliefs and practices in Finland / Iida Kukkonen
  • Chapter 3. The metrosexual who never visited Finland - the eternal gender gap in appearance-related consumption / Outi Sarpila
  • Chapter 4. Seeking age-appropriate appearance among ageing men / Hanna Ojala and Ilkka Pietilä PART II. CONTESTED CONVERSIONS - EVERYDAY (RE)WORKINGS OF AESTHETIC CAPITAL
  • Chapter 5. Too smart-looking for a waiter? - scripting appearance norms at the theatre of working-life / Tero Pajunen
  • Chapter 6. Generating aesthetic capital: Prospects from autobiographical narratives / Tero Pajunen
  • Chapter 7. The ouroboros of seeking validation? Exploring the interconnection of appearance (dis)satisfaction and content creation on social media / Erica Åberg and Aki Koivula
  • Chapter 8. Sofie's world: Resistance toward the thin ideal in sofie hagen's fat activist online content / Anna Puhakka
  • Chapter 9. Well-beshaved women rarely make history - exploring the contestation of the hairless beauty ideal with case #januhairy / Erica Åberg and Laura Salonen.