Beauty as structural inequality: beauty, feminist protests, nationalism, neoliberal femininity -- Black is beautiful: anti-racist beauty aesthetics and cultural resistance -- Globalization, Indian beauty nationalism, and colorism: class, caste, and gender stratification -- Chinese femininity, beauty economy, cosmetic surgery -- A complex model of beauty.
"The Global Beauty Industry is an interdisciplinary text that uses beauty to explore topics of gender, race, class, colorism, nation, bodies, multiculturalism, transnationalism, and intersectionality. Integrating materials from a wide range of cultural and geo-political contexts, it coalesces with initiatives to produce more internationally relevant curricula in fields such as sociology, as well as cultural, women's/gender, media, and globalization studies"--The publisher.