A beleza abre portas

Beauty and the racialised body among black middle-class women in Salvador, Brazil

Bibliographic Data

ID4367166
AuthorsDoreen Gordon (University of the West Indies, Jamaica; The University of Pretoria, South Africa), Doreen Joy Gordon (0009-0009-5256-5461, University of the West Indies System, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume14
Issue2
Pages203-218
Publication date2013-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1464700113483249
OpenAlexW2324718947
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited28

Beauty is constantly lived and incorporated as a meaningful social category in Brazil and intersects with racialised and gendered ways of belonging to the Brazilian nation. In this article, I deploy ethnographic material to show how middle-class women self-identifying as black embody and experience beauty and how, through practices and discourses centred on physical appearance, they both reinforce and challenge broader social and racial inequalities in Brazil

Aesthetics · Art · Beauty · Ethnography · Middle class · Political science · Social class · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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