Kristen Barber

Styling Masculinity

Gender, Class, and Inequality in the Men's Grooming Industry

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Styling Masculinity investigates the economic and social relations at the heart of the growing multi-billion-dollar male grooming industry. Conducting detailed observations at two upscale men’s salons, Kristen Barber explores both how male customers are encouraged to invest in their appearance and how female employees do much of the work—not only the physical labor of snipping, tweezing, waxing, and exfoliating, but also the emotional labor of pampering their clients and pumping up their masculine egos.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Altersempfehlung: ab 16 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 355g
• ISBN-13: 9780813565521
• ISBN-10: 0813565529
• Artikelnr.: 44218067

Autorenporträt

KRISTEN BARBER is an assistant professor of sociology and a faculty affiliate in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Southern Illinois University–Carbondale. 

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
 
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1      Men and Beauty: The Historical Expansion of an Industry
2      Rocks Glasses and Color Camo: Selling Beauty to Class-Privileged Men
3      Heterosexual Aesthetic Labor: Hiring and Requiring Women Beauty
Workers
4      Hair Care: Emotional Labor and Touching Rules in Men's Grooming
5      "We're Men's Women": Occupational Choice Narratives of Sameness and
Difference
Conclusion
Appendix A. Class, Gender, and the Economy in the Study of Men's Salons
Appendix B. Participant Demographic Information
Bibliography
Index