"The Global Beauty Industry is an interdisciplinary text that uses beauty to explore topics of gender, race, class, colorism, nation, bodies, multiculturalism, transnationalism, and intersectionality. Integrating materials from a wide range of cultural and geo-political contexts, it coalesces with initiatives to produce more internationally relevant curricula in fields such as sociology, as well as cultural, women's/gender, media, and globalization studies."--pub. desc.

Beauty as structural inequality: beauty, feminist protests, nationalism, neoliberal femininity -- Black is beautiful: anti-racist beauty aesthetics and cultural resistance -- Globalization, Indian beauty nationalism, and colorism: class, caste, and gender stratification -- Chinese femininity, beauty economy, cosmetic surgery -- A complex model of beauty.