In 2022, Giselinde published an article in which she explained how and why beauty become so important in today’s society. Following sociologists Norbert Elias, but with a dash of Michel Foucault and Max Weber, she calls this “The expanding beauty regime”. The article was published in Critical Studies In Fashion and Beauty (paywall) but the full text is available open access via KU Leuven.
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