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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"skin lightening products"”.
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AN EXPLORATION OF SKIN TONE RELATED BELIEFS AND ATTITUDES AMONG ASIAN INDIAN WOMEN IN URBAN INDIA
This study explores how changes in skin tone surveillance predicted by: (a) skin tone satisfaction, (b) preference for lighter skin tone, (c) internalization of cultural standards of attractiveness, and (d) use of skin-lightening products among Asian Indian women. Exploratory analyses with …
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Assessment of Basotho women's perceptions of the health risks associated with skin-lightening in Lesotho using the Health Belief Model
The practice of skin lightening has existed for centuries and is still prevalent today despite globally coordinated legal efforts to ban harmful skin-lightening agents in cosmetic items. Exposure to toxic compounds such as mercury, hydroquinone, and corticosteroids commonly found in skin-lightening …
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Race, Gender, and Beauty in Late Colonial India c.1900-1950.
This doctoral thesis argues that skin-lightening defined femininity and modernity for emerging middle-class women in colonial India during a time of global transformation. Most contemporary scholarship to date focuses on the impacts of twenty-first-century skin-lightening markets and advertising …
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The Globalization of Cosmetic Surgery: Examining BRIC and Beyond
… field include the industries of medical tourism, skin lightening products, and tissue harvesting, as well as an expanding market of cosmetic surgery for teens and children.</p>