Styling Masculinity
Gender, Class, and Inequality in the Men's Grooming Industry
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Product details:
- Publisher Rutgers University Press
- Date of Publication 24 August 2016
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9780813565521
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 229x152x15 mm
- Weight 367 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 figure, 4 tables 0
Categories
Sociology in general, methodology, handbooks
Beauty & fashion
Beauty, fashion
Gender studies
Cultural studies
Further reading in the field of sociology
Cultural anthropology
Sociology in general, methodology, handbooks (charity campaign)
Beauty & fashion (charity campaign)
Beauty, fashion (charity campaign)
Gender studies (charity campaign)
Cultural studies (charity campaign)
Further reading in the field of sociology (charity campaign)
Cultural anthropology (charity campaign)
Long description:
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 this innovative study reveals, even as the industry encourages men to invest more in their appearance, it still relies on women to do much of the work.
Styling Masculinity investigates how men's beauty salons have persuaded their clientele to regard them as masculine spaces. To answer this question, sociologist Kristen Barber goes inside Adonis and The Executive, two upscale men's salons in Southern California. Conducting detailed observations and extensive interviews with both customers and employees, she shows how female salon workers not only perform the physical labor of snipping, tweezing, waxing, and exfoliating, but also perform the emotional labor of pampering their clients and pumping up their masculine egos.
Letting salon employees tell their own stories, Barber not only documents occasions when these workers are objectified and demeaned, but also explores how their jobs allow for creativity and confer a degree of professional dignity. In the process, she traces the vast network of economic and social relations that undergird the burgeoning male beauty industry.
Table of Contents:
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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
Bibliography
Index
