The Global Beauty Industry

by Meeta Rani Jha

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.

Genres: Nonfiction

134 pages, Paperback

First published September 16, 2015

Reviews

[bks · Rating 3 out of 5]

the author analyzes the beauty industry using an interdisciplinary approach. The book compares and contrasts beauty in black, Indian and Chinese culture and offers an unique POV. It is clear to me that the author is more devoted in some chapters than in others.

[Dylan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ouch: really poorly written. Each chapter is a veritable grab bag of data and anecdotes. There's little in the way of a thesis for each chapter: anything pertaining to "beauty" is tossed into the soup.

[Cam's Corner · Rating 2 out of 5]

UGHHHHHHHHHHH tbh there’s not a more annoying feeling than looking up books that sound like exactly what you need for research, only to be extremely disappointed when it turns out you only needed 2 chapters.