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Article: Miller, Laura: Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics.(Book review)
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- Asian Affairs: An American Review
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- March 22, 2009
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Miller, Laura
Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics
Berkeley: University of California Press
256 pp., $22.95
ISBN: 978-0-520-24509-9
Publication Date: July 2006
This groundbreaking exploration of the beauty industry in Japan slays many pernicious stereotypes, not least of which are the assumptions that Japanese women prefer Caucasian features to their own and that Japanese society as a whole has an inferiority complex and privileges whatever is perceived to be white, including Western culture. Western media, particularly in America, have helped perpetuate these stereotypes with half-truths and ...