Claudia Liebelt,Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology at Bayreuth University, Germany. Her primary research interests are gender, beauty and body aesthetics, intimate labor, embodiment, and Islam in Turkey.

Sarah Böllinger, M.A., is Ph.D. Candidate and Junior Fellow of the International Graduate School of African Studies at Bayreuth University, Germany. She is the director of becks, the administrative department for disabled and chronically ill students.

Ulf Vierke,Ph.D., is Director of Iwalewahaus, the Museum for Contemporary African Arts, at Bayreuth University, Germany. He also acts as the Head of DEVA, the Digital Research Archive of African Studies.

Presents a well-rounded, nuanced, and cutting-edge discussion of the globalization of beauty

Engages with concepts of beauty using case studies from around the globe

Locates beauty ideals and ideas within larger discussions of disability, race, feminism, art and media representations, and bodily politics

1. Introduction: Changing Beauty: Doing and Undoing Norms.- 2. Stephan Bibrowski, The "Lion Man," And The Changing Face Of Normative Middle-Class Masculinity In Bohemia Around 1900.- 3. Quantifying Beauty: How Bathroom Scales Shaped Aesthetic Norms In The Dutch Interbellum.- 4. Debating Bodily Standardization In The Global Beauty Boom/A Conversation.- 5. From Freak To Quirk Model: The Spectacularization Of The Albinotic Body.- 6. Prabuddha Dasgupta's Alternative Indian Advertising Beauties.- 7. Broken Beauty, Broken Cups: Disabled Bodies In Contemporary African Art.- 8. "Disability Gain" And the Limits Of Representing Alternative Beauty / A Conversation.- 9. Fashioning the Female Muslim Body: From "Hiding Beauty" To "Managing Beauty".- 10. Being Fat, But How? On The Material and Interactional Co-Constitution Of Self-Perception In Weight Watchers Meetings And The Fat Acceptance Movement In Germany.- 11. Reshaping "Turkish" Breasts And Noses: On Cosmetic Surgery, Normative Femininities, And Bodily Autonomy.- 12. Conversation On Rose: A Performative Installation.- 13. Body Beautiful: Comparative Meanings Of Beauty In South Africa, Brazil And Jamaica.- 14. "In This Country, Beauty Is Defined By Fairness Of Skin." On Skin Color Politics, Beauty Practices And Social Stratification In India.- 15. De-Centering Caucasian Whiteness.- 16. Skin Color Politics and the White Beauty Standard / A Conversation.