Fat, fire and fluids: a research note on the objects in the everyday life of a beauty salon
Journal Title: Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology - Year 2012, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
This research note brings together two “lost and found” items in social theory: “the body” and the “the object”. The goal is to explain how body objectification is being produced in the hybrid social space of a beauty centre.
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Monica Costache
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