This book offers a cross-cultural comparison of French and British cosmetics advertisements and explores how the discourse of beauty advertising represents ideas about femininity in French and English language contexts. As the global beauty industry expands and consumers become more critical of the claims made, the topic of cosmetics advertising discourse is examined using Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis. One common theme underlying most cosmetics advertising discourse is that the female body always requires work to fix its problems: flat skin, dry hair, and so on. The author uses themes...
This book offers a cross-cultural comparison of French and British cosmetics advertisements and explores how the discourse of beauty advertising repre...