Body Work: Beauty and Self-Image in American Culture

By D. Gimlin. 2002

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Big Handsome Men, Bears and Others: Virtual Constructions of ‘Fat Male Embodiment’ (2005, background): “However, while political concerns are often clearly articulated by fat women aligned with feminism (Gimlin, 2002), the politics of fat male embodiment largely concern the gendered ‘politics of identity’ (Goffman, 1968: 149).”
Beauty Work: Individual and Institutional Rewards, the Reproduction of Gender, and Questions of Agency (2009, background): “Others have documented a hierarchy of earnings by appearance (plain looking, average-looking, and good-looking; Hammermesh and Biddle 1994) and a positive correlation between appearance and both family and personal income (Umberson and Hughes 1987). Conley and Glauber’s (2005) recent analysis demons”
Visible and invisible ageing: beauty work as a response to ageism (2008, background): “Indeed, women are harshly judged on the basis of their ability to achieve and maintain the cultural ideal of female beauty, namely a young, thin, toned, yet shapely body (Bartky 1990; Bordo 1993; Cortese 2004; Gimlin 2002; Wolf 1991).”