Beauty and the Norm: Debating Standardization in Bodily Appearance

I. Introduction: Changing Beauty: Doing and Undoing Norms 2. Stephan Bibrowski, The "Lion Man," And The Changing Face Of Normative Middle-Class Masculinity In Bohemia Around 1900
3. Quantifying Beauty: How Bathroom Scales Shaped Aesthetic Norms In The Dutch Interbellum 4. Debating Bodily Standardization In The Global Beauty Boom/A Conversation
Part I. Mediatizing Beauty: Representing "Alternative" Beauty
5. From Freak To Quirk Model: The Spectacularization Of The Albinotic Body 6. Prabuddha Dasgupta's Alternative Indian Advertising Beauties 7. Broken Beauty, Broken Cups: Disabled Bodies In Contemporary African Art 8. "Disability Gain" And the Limits Of Representing Alternative Beauty / A Conversation
Part II. Beauty As Self-Fashioning: Aesthetic Practices And Subjectivities
9. Fashioning the Female Muslim Body: From "Hiding Beauty" To "Managing Beauty" 10. Being Fat, But How? On The Material and Interactional Co-Constitution Of Self-Perception In Weight Watchers Meetings And The Fat Acceptance Movement In Germany 11. Reshaping "Turkish" Breasts And Noses: On Cosmetic Surgery, Normative Femininities, And Bodily Autonomy 12. Conversation On Rose: A Performative Installation
Part III. Beauty Politics: Decentering The 'White Beauty' Standard
13. Body Beautiful: Comparative Meanings Of Beauty In South Africa, Brazil And Jamaica 14. "In This Country, Beauty Is Defined By Fairness Of Skin." On Skin Color Politics, Beauty Practices And Social Stratification In India 15. De-Centering Caucasian Whiteness 16. Skin Color Politics and the White Beauty Standard / A Conversation