Fat, fire and fluids: a research note on the objects in the everyday life of a beauty salon
Fat, fire and fluids: a research note on the objects in the everyday life of a beauty salon
Author(s): Monica CostacheSubject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Universitatea din Bucuresti, Facultatea de Sociologie si Asistenta Sociala
Keywords: apparatus; body project; object; fat; pain
Summary/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.
Journal: Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology
- Issue Year: 3/2012
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 81-100
- Page Count: 20
- Language: English
