Author: Susan Ossman
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822328964
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
DIVA transnational study of female beauty based in an ethnographic study of beauty salons in Cairo, Casablanca, and Paris./div
Three Faces of Beauty
Author: Susan Ossman
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822328964
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
DIVA transnational study of female beauty based in an ethnographic study of beauty salons in Cairo, Casablanca, and Paris./div
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822328964
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
DIVA transnational study of female beauty based in an ethnographic study of beauty salons in Cairo, Casablanca, and Paris./div
Three Faces of Beauty
Author: Susan Ossman
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822383632
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Three Faces of Beauty offers a unique approach to understanding globalization and cultural change based on a comparative, ethnographic study of a nearly universal institution: the beauty salon. Susan Ossman traces the images and words of the beauty industry as they developed historically between Paris, Cairo, and Casablanca and then vividly demonstrates how such images are embodied today in salons located in each city. By examining how images from fashion magazines, film, and advertising are enacted in beauty salons, Ossman demonstrates how embodiment is able to display and rework certain hierarchies. While offering the possibility of freedom from the tethers of status, nation, religion, and nature, beauty is created by these very categories and values, Ossman shows. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, she documents the various rituals of welcome, choice-making, pricing practices, and spatial arrangements in multiple salons . She also reveals ways in which patrons in all three cities imagine and co-opt looks they believe are fashionable in the other cities. By observing salons as scenes of instruction, Ossman reveals that beautiful bodies evolve within the intertwining contexts of media, modernity, location, time, postcolonialism, and male expectation.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822383632
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Three Faces of Beauty offers a unique approach to understanding globalization and cultural change based on a comparative, ethnographic study of a nearly universal institution: the beauty salon. Susan Ossman traces the images and words of the beauty industry as they developed historically between Paris, Cairo, and Casablanca and then vividly demonstrates how such images are embodied today in salons located in each city. By examining how images from fashion magazines, film, and advertising are enacted in beauty salons, Ossman demonstrates how embodiment is able to display and rework certain hierarchies. While offering the possibility of freedom from the tethers of status, nation, religion, and nature, beauty is created by these very categories and values, Ossman shows. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, she documents the various rituals of welcome, choice-making, pricing practices, and spatial arrangements in multiple salons . She also reveals ways in which patrons in all three cities imagine and co-opt looks they believe are fashionable in the other cities. By observing salons as scenes of instruction, Ossman reveals that beautiful bodies evolve within the intertwining contexts of media, modernity, location, time, postcolonialism, and male expectation.
Three Faces of Desire
Author: Timothy Schroeder
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190291508
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
To desire something is a condition familiar to everyone. It is uncontroversial that desiring has something to do with motivation, something to do with pleasure, and something to do with reward. Call these "the three faces of desire." The standard philosophical theory at present holds that the motivational face of desire presents its unique essence--to desire a state of affairs is to be disposed to act so as to bring it about. A familiar but less standard account holds the hedonic face of desire to reveal to true nature of desire. In this view, to desire something is to tend to pleasure if it seems that the desired state of affairs has been achieved, or displeasure if it seems otherwise, thus tying desire to feelings instead of actions. In Three Faces of Desire, Schroeder goes beyond actions and feelings to advance a novel and controversial theory of desire that puts the focus on desire's neglected face, reward. Informed by contemporary science as much as by the philosophical tradition, Three Faces of Desire discusses recent scientific discoveries that tell us much about the way that actions and feelings are produced in the brain. In particular, recent experiments reveal that a distinctive system is responsible for promoting action, on the one hand, and causing feelings of pleasure and displeasure, on the other. This system, the brain's reward system, is the causal origin of both action and feeling, and is the key to understanding the nature of desire.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190291508
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
To desire something is a condition familiar to everyone. It is uncontroversial that desiring has something to do with motivation, something to do with pleasure, and something to do with reward. Call these "the three faces of desire." The standard philosophical theory at present holds that the motivational face of desire presents its unique essence--to desire a state of affairs is to be disposed to act so as to bring it about. A familiar but less standard account holds the hedonic face of desire to reveal to true nature of desire. In this view, to desire something is to tend to pleasure if it seems that the desired state of affairs has been achieved, or displeasure if it seems otherwise, thus tying desire to feelings instead of actions. In Three Faces of Desire, Schroeder goes beyond actions and feelings to advance a novel and controversial theory of desire that puts the focus on desire's neglected face, reward. Informed by contemporary science as much as by the philosophical tradition, Three Faces of Desire discusses recent scientific discoveries that tell us much about the way that actions and feelings are produced in the brain. In particular, recent experiments reveal that a distinctive system is responsible for promoting action, on the one hand, and causing feelings of pleasure and displeasure, on the other. This system, the brain's reward system, is the causal origin of both action and feeling, and is the key to understanding the nature of desire.
The Three Faces of Love
Author: Paul A. Hauck
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664244866
Category : Love
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664244866
Category : Love
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Three Faces of Power
Author: Kenneth Ewart Boulding
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780803938625
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Defining power as the ability to get what we want, this volume identifies three major types of power: threat power; economic power; and, integrative power. It argues that threat power should not be seen as fundamental since it is not effective unless reinforced by economic and integrative power.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780803938625
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Defining power as the ability to get what we want, this volume identifies three major types of power: threat power; economic power; and, integrative power. It argues that threat power should not be seen as fundamental since it is not effective unless reinforced by economic and integrative power.
Many Faces of Beauty
Author: Vittorio Hösle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780268206420
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The contributors of this volume examine beauty and aesthetic theory in nature and human society, in the humanities and science.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780268206420
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The contributors of this volume examine beauty and aesthetic theory in nature and human society, in the humanities and science.
Three Faces of God
Author: David L. Miller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781882670949
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book provides a demonstration that the difficult notion of the Trinity is alive and well, although not in places that one may have expected. It flourishes in a mythology recovered from an ancient pagan past and, surprisingly, in secular poetry and drama of our own time, even though it is often neglected in popular piety and in academic theology.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781882670949
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book provides a demonstration that the difficult notion of the Trinity is alive and well, although not in places that one may have expected. It flourishes in a mythology recovered from an ancient pagan past and, surprisingly, in secular poetry and drama of our own time, even though it is often neglected in popular piety and in academic theology.
The Three Faces of Eve
Author: Corbett Hilsman Thigpen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780911238518
Category : Dissociative disorders
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 1954 Drs. Thigpen adn Cleckley wrote a technical article, "A Case of Multiple Personality", for the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology. This appeared before they had completed the work on the case. The Three Faces of Eve is an extension of that collaboration - a complete account of this extraordinary case which is likely to engage the lay reader's interest as vividly as that of physicians and professional workers in psychology and sociology. Eve White was a shy, saintly housewife and mother. Eve Black was a coarse, seductive beauty with a passion for drinking, dancing and the company of strangers. Jane was the third Eve. She was a mature, poised woman - but her tormented soul held the key to Eve's deepest mystery. They were all one woman - and they were all unlike the Eve that finally emerged. --Google Books
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780911238518
Category : Dissociative disorders
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 1954 Drs. Thigpen adn Cleckley wrote a technical article, "A Case of Multiple Personality", for the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology. This appeared before they had completed the work on the case. The Three Faces of Eve is an extension of that collaboration - a complete account of this extraordinary case which is likely to engage the lay reader's interest as vividly as that of physicians and professional workers in psychology and sociology. Eve White was a shy, saintly housewife and mother. Eve Black was a coarse, seductive beauty with a passion for drinking, dancing and the company of strangers. Jane was the third Eve. She was a mature, poised woman - but her tormented soul held the key to Eve's deepest mystery. They were all one woman - and they were all unlike the Eve that finally emerged. --Google Books
Staying Beautiful is a BITCH!
Author: Robert James Smith, P.h.D. & Carrol Su
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453515259
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
You and beauty. What choices would you make? If you were made an offer to become one of the most beautiful people in the world but you would never be able to have a sexual orgasm, would you accept or reject this offer? If God asked you to become ugly for the rest of your life in exchange for eternal life in heaven, would you accept God’s offer? Would you give up your beauty if this was the only way to save your child’s life? When a beautiful and a much less attractive person have sex, is the less attractive person more obligated to sexually please and satisfy their more beautiful partner? Should a man ask a woman who dyes her gray hair to let him see her without it dyed so he can see how old she looks before he becomes sexually or romantically involved with her? If given the choice between being an unattractive, straight person or a beautiful gay person all of your adult life, which would you choose? Would you stay or move out of your neighborhood if a whole lot of unattractive people moved in?
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453515259
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
You and beauty. What choices would you make? If you were made an offer to become one of the most beautiful people in the world but you would never be able to have a sexual orgasm, would you accept or reject this offer? If God asked you to become ugly for the rest of your life in exchange for eternal life in heaven, would you accept God’s offer? Would you give up your beauty if this was the only way to save your child’s life? When a beautiful and a much less attractive person have sex, is the less attractive person more obligated to sexually please and satisfy their more beautiful partner? Should a man ask a woman who dyes her gray hair to let him see her without it dyed so he can see how old she looks before he becomes sexually or romantically involved with her? If given the choice between being an unattractive, straight person or a beautiful gay person all of your adult life, which would you choose? Would you stay or move out of your neighborhood if a whole lot of unattractive people moved in?
Shifting Worlds, Shaping Fieldwork
Author: Susan Ossman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000182606
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Reflecting on fieldwork for the twenty-first century, anthropologist and artist Susan Ossman invites readers on a journey across North Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. She reveals that fieldwork today is not only about being immersed in a place or culture; instead, it is an active way of focusing attention and engendering encounters and experiences. She conceives a new kind of autoethnography, making art and ethnography equal partners to follow three "waves" of her research on media, globalization, and migration. Ossman guides the reader through diverse settings, including a colonial villa in Casablanca, a Cairo beauty salon, a California mall-turned-gallery, the Berlin Wall, and Amsterdam’s Hermitage museum. She delves into the entanglements of solitary research and collective action. This book is a primer for current anthropology and an invitation to artists and scholars to work across boundaries. It vividly shows how fieldwork can shape scenes for experiments with multiple outcomes, from conceptual advances to artworks, performances to dialogue and community making.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000182606
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Reflecting on fieldwork for the twenty-first century, anthropologist and artist Susan Ossman invites readers on a journey across North Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. She reveals that fieldwork today is not only about being immersed in a place or culture; instead, it is an active way of focusing attention and engendering encounters and experiences. She conceives a new kind of autoethnography, making art and ethnography equal partners to follow three "waves" of her research on media, globalization, and migration. Ossman guides the reader through diverse settings, including a colonial villa in Casablanca, a Cairo beauty salon, a California mall-turned-gallery, the Berlin Wall, and Amsterdam’s Hermitage museum. She delves into the entanglements of solitary research and collective action. This book is a primer for current anthropology and an invitation to artists and scholars to work across boundaries. It vividly shows how fieldwork can shape scenes for experiments with multiple outcomes, from conceptual advances to artworks, performances to dialogue and community making.