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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Beauty practices"”.
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Performing cultural identities and transnational ‘imaginaries’: fashion and beauty practices as diasporic spaces among young London Congolese
… examines a range of transnational fashion and beauty practices as narrative spaces employed by young London Congolese to embody their individual and collective racial, ethnic and gender identities. It investigates how they re-think and narrate their cultural heritage through forms of body …
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A thematic analysis of female University students' perception of idealised body image in Sudan and their experiences of performing common beauty practices: (Skin lightening, applying black henna dye and purposively induced weight)
… and development of beliefs related to three beauty practices; purposeful weight gain, skin lightening and skin decoration with black henna. The study conducted in Sudan to explore behaviours associated with these three beauty practices in educated young Sudanese women. Nineteen female …
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I Come Home to Myself
… a portrait of their individual relationships to beauty and beauty work. The documentary contrasts the varied experiences that have shaped their beauty practices as well as their negotiations with beauty work. The film also explores the different internal and external forces that influence their …
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Decoding dominant ideals of beauty : Young women’s engagements with media representations, social environments, and media literacy
Beauty is an important and complex concept. A variety of sociocultural environments articulates beauty and physical attractiveness to success and popularity. The influence of media deserves particular attention as it is able to create and circulate dominant ideals of beauty. Research suggests that …
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Sites of migrant landing: (un)braiding topographies of relations across hair salons in Mowbray
… that is routed and rooted in African women's beauty practices. Two distinct relations to the hair salon have emerged in the findings. One that emphasised place making through social relations, and the other that showed the different ways that displacement and anti-migration attitudes and …