Styling Masculinity : : Gender, Class, and Inequality in the Men's Grooming Industry /

Styling Masculinity : : Gender, Class, and Inequality in the Men's Grooming Industry / / Kristen Barber.

The twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a new style of man: the metrosexual. Overwhelmingly straight, white, and wealthy, these impeccably coiffed urban professionals spend big money on everything from facials to pedicures, all part of a multi-billion-dollar male grooming industry. Yet as...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter RUP eBook-Package 2016
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Barber, Kristen,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (258 p.) :; 1 figure, 4 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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