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EAN : 9782355220395
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 240
Size : 140 x 205 mm
FATAL BEAUTY

Collection : ZONES
Release date : 16/02/2012

Today, the « tyranny of look » imposes its vision of stereotypical femininity. Through this thorough review of women's press, advertising, blogs, TV series, Models’ interviews and sociological studies, Mona Chollet shows how the fashion and beauty industries aim to maintain, through guiles both seductive and insidious, the sexist logic...

Today, the « tyranny of look » imposes its vision of stereotypical femininity. Through this thorough review of women's press, advertising, blogs, TV series, Models’ interviews and sociological studies, Mona Chollet shows how the fashion and beauty industries aim to maintain, through guiles both seductive and insidious, the sexist logic at the heart of the cultural sphere. The female body is enjoined to become a product, always improvable so as to better sell. Thus the contemporary feminine ideal: an absent spirit in an objectified body.

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EAN : 9782355220395
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 240
Size : 140 x 205 mm
La Découverte