This collection of original scholarly work and first-person accounts takes globalization processes and the transnational links these processes create as the jumping-off point for an examination of what it means to be, have, or aspire to a beautiful body.
This collection of original scholarly work and first-person accounts takes globalization processes and the transnational links these processes create ...
Globalization is often thought of as an abstract process that happens "out there" in the world. But people are ultimately the driving force of global change, and people have bodies that are absent from current conversations about globalization. The original scholarly research and first-person accounts of embodiment in this volume explore the role of bodies in the flows of people, money, commodities, and ideas across borders. From Zumba fitness classes to martial arts to fashion blogs and the meanings of tattooing, the contributors examine migrating body practices and ideals that stretch...
Globalization is often thought of as an abstract process that happens "out there" in the world. But people are ultimately the driving force of global ...
This first in-depth study of a cosmetics direct selling organization in Latin America considers how women's experiences in the informal employment sector can illuminate our understandings of work and gender in Ecuador and other developing countries.
This first in-depth study of a cosmetics direct selling organization in Latin America considers how women's experiences in the informal employment sec...
This collection of original scholarly work and first-person accounts takes globalization processes and the transnational links these processes create as the jumping-off point for an examination of what it means to be, have, or aspire to a beautiful body.
This collection of original scholarly work and first-person accounts takes globalization processes and the transnational links these processes create ...
