Fat, fire and fluids: a research note on the objects in the everyday life of a beauty salon

Abstract

This research note brings together two “lost and found” items in social theory: “the body” and the “the object”. The goal is to explain how body objectification is being produced in the hybrid social space of a beauty centre.

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Monica Costache

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Monica Costache (2012). Fat, fire and fluids: a research note on the objects in the everyday life of a beauty salon. Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology, 3(1), -. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-40958