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"The Biopolitics of Beauty is gripping in its empirical narrative and in its theoretical framework, which demonstrates that empirical attention to beauty can bring together theories about medicalization and theories about affect. . . . Jarrín demonstrates that affect and biopolitical discourse shape how patients and plastic surgeons engage each other around questions of beauty, health, and social mobility." * PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review *

Table of Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Biopolitical and Affective Dimensions of Beauty
1. The Eugenesis of Beauty
2. Plastic Governmentality
3. The Circulation of Beauty
4. Hope, Affect, Mobility
5. The Raciology of Beauty
6. Cosmetic Citizens
Conclusion: Thinking of Beauty Transnationally

Notes
Bibliography
Index

The Biopolitics of Beauty

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 29/08/2017
      ISBN13: 9780520293885, 978-0520293885
      ISBN10: 0520293886
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      Home & Garden Cosmetics, hair and beauty Social and cultural anthropology Sociology and anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "The Biopolitics of Beauty is gripping in its empirical narrative and in its theoretical framework, which demonstrates that empirical attention to beauty can bring together theories about medicalization and theories about affect. . . . Jarrín demonstrates that affect and biopolitical discourse shape how patients and plastic surgeons engage each other around questions of beauty, health, and social mobility." * PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review *

      Table of Contents
      Illustrations
      Acknowledgments

      Introduction: The Biopolitical and Affective Dimensions of Beauty
      1. The Eugenesis of Beauty
      2. Plastic Governmentality
      3. The Circulation of Beauty
      4. Hope, Affect, Mobility
      5. The Raciology of Beauty
      6. Cosmetic Citizens
      Conclusion: Thinking of Beauty Transnationally

      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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