Beauty up
Subtitle: exploring contemporary Japanese body aesthetics
By: Laura Miller.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Body, Human -- Social aspects -- Japan; Beauty, Personal -- Japan; Beauty culture -- Japan; Body image -- Japan; Philosophy, Japanese; Japan -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Approaches to body aesthetics and the beauty system; title: Changing beauty ideology; title: Aesthetic salons; title: Mammary mania; title: Body fashion and beauty etiquette; title: Male beauty work; title: The well-behaved appetite; title: The language of esute; title: Esute power.