What's new in Beauty Politics? 39 feminists debate beauty

• In Event: Beauty Politics: Identity, Femininity, and Ideology

Abstract

The Routledge Companion to Beauty Politics invited an international, interdisciplinary group of 39 scholars to write on beauty politics. As editor of the volume, I will highlight the unsettled debates, emerging questions, research findings, and recent directions of feminist scholarship on the politics of beauty. Central themes in the volume were the need to de-center whiteness in critical writing on beauty, the intensification of beauty demands, the consequences of emergent movements for beauty politics, and the complexity of the partial incorporation of feminist anti-racist politics by the beauty and fashion industries.

Presenter

• Maxine Craig, University of California Davis Sociology