The shifts in Japanese women's perceptions of beauty and beautification practices

dc.contributor.author	Iida, Chiaki	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2024-08-14T17:53:14Z
dc.date.available	2024-08-14T17:53:14Z
dc.date.copyright	2003	en_US
dc.date.issued	2003
dc.degree.department	Department of Sociology
dc.degree.level	Master of Arts M.A.	en
dc.description.abstract	There have been very few studies of shifts in perceptions of women' s beauty and beautification practices. This thesis reports on a study of such shifts among Japanese women in Canada. The study used a qualitative method of Institutional Ethnography, based on ten interviews conducted between 2001 and 2002 with Japanese women who were born and raised in Japan and have resided in Canada for a minimum of two years. While these Japanese women's perceptions of what beauty is have changed little, they have lessened beautification practices since they came to Canada. The complex perceptions and practices surrounding beauty and beautification are associated with multiple interlocking and intersecting structures which organize pressures, expectations and advantages for women to pursue standards of beauty. In tum, women's perceptions and practices help to maintain and reproduce these structures. By accepting the status quo, women allow problems of gender inequality and White supremacy to remain.
dc.format.extent	133 pages
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1828/18300
dc.rights	Available to the World Wide Web	en_US
dc.title	The shifts in Japanese women's perceptions of beauty and beautification practices	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US

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