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Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min
The proposed panel will examine the impact of embodied labor on intersectional inequalities. The use of the body to generate symbols, feelings and relationships as part of paid employment is of growing interest to both scholars of intersectionality and of organizations, occupations and work. A growing number of occupations adopt explicit rules, as well as implicit norms, for how to present the body as part of work activity, as workers are used as symbolic vehicles to represent firms and consolidate relationships with consumers. These "body rules" are often presented as neutral but in fact convey messages about race, class and gender while also reproducing inequalities. Papers should examine some dimension of aesthetic or embodied work.
Botox, Aesthetic Labor, and Body Entrepreneurship - Dana A. Berkowitz, Louisiana State University
Do "Style Makeovers" Help Poor Women?: The Embodied Disadvantages of Gender, Race, Class & Body Size - Kjerstin Gruys, University of Nevada, Reno
Hair Care: The Gender, Class, and Race of Emotional Labor and Touching Rules in Men's Grooming - Kristen Barber, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Symbolic Aesthetic Labor - Allister Pilar Plater, University of Virginia
Transgender Models Can’t Get Verified Here?: Webcam Performers and the Virtual Enforcement of Embodied Labor - Angela Jones, Farmingdale State College, State University of New York