Three Faces of Beauty - Casablanca, Paris, Cairo

"Susan Ossman lets us hear women's hopes for beauty and difference--out of or under the head shawl--in Casablanca, Cairo, and Paris. What a pleasure to linger in these beauty shops, where talk, the snipping scissors, and Egyptian songs help open the door to modernity. A delightful and insightful read."--Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton University

List of contents

Translations and Transcriptions

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Anywhere Bodies and Faraway Eyes

2. Background Bodies

3. Society, Salons, and Significance

4. Styling Distinctions

5. Forms and Passages

6. Beauty’s Edge

Notes

Glossary of Terms

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the author

Susan Ossman is Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology at Georgetown University. She is the author of Picturing Casablanca: Portraits of Power in a Modern City.

Summary

A trans-national study of female beauty based in an ethnographic study of beauty salons in Cairo, Casablanca, and Paris.

Product details

• Authors: Ossman, Susan Ossman, Susan Ossman
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2002
• EAN: 9780822328810
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2881-0
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 238 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 508 g
• Subjects: Guides > Health > Beauty/cosmetics; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Anthropologie, Globalisierung, Ägypten, Marokko, Dienstleistungsgewerbe, Gastgewerbe, Soziale und ethische Themen, Einzel- und Großhandel