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Aesthetic Labour: Beauty Politics in Neoliberalism Read chapter Read first chapter

2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

10. Dream Jobs? The Glamourisation of Beauty Service Work in Media Culture

Author : Laurie Ouellette

Published in: Aesthetic Labour

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Abstract

This chapter approaches aesthetic labour from the vantage point of people who earn a living providing aesthetic services. I construct an alternate genealogy of the makeover regime by tracing the rising visibility of salon work in media culture and showing how previously feminised and devalued beauty service labour is now celebrated as creative, glamorous and enterprising.

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Metadata
Title
Dream Jobs? The Glamourisation of Beauty Service Work in Media Culture
Author
Laurie Ouellette
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Aesthetic Labour

Print ISBN: 978-1-137-47764-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-47765-1

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47765-1_10