The Harms of Beauty

Sam Barnes

doi:10.46692/9781529235364

The Harms of Beauty

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Sam Barnes, Arden University, UK

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: September 2025
Print publication year:: 2025
Online ISBN:: 9781529235364
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529235364

Subjects:: Engineering, Industrial Manufacturing and Operations Engineering, Criminology, Sociology

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The beauty industry thrives on creating a sense of dissatisfaction with appearance, with social media adding pressure to conform to idealized images of beauty. This has led to a growing use of products for bodily improvement such as facial injectables and weight loss drugs, which have arguably become increasingly normalized throughout society.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Series Editors’ Preface
pp vi-vii

Acknowledgements
pp viii-viii

Foreword
pp ix-xii

1 - Introduction
pp 1-10

2 - Contemporary Subjectivity and Hyper-Comparison
pp 11-28

3 - The Changing Nature of Beauty, Enhancement and Harm
pp 29-50

4 - The Contemporary Seller and the Myth of the ‘Organized Criminal’
pp 51-71

5 - Consuming (Counterfeit) Beauty; Consuming Aesthetic Pleasure
pp 72-94

6 - From Filters to Fillers: The Real-Life Instagram Face
pp 95-114

7 - Botox, Booze and ‘Bonding’
pp 115-124

8 - Conclusion
pp 125-133

Notes
pp 134-135

References
pp 136-154

Index
pp 155-160

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