Abstract
‘Living dolls’ is a term that emerged online during 2010 to describe a group of women who participate in the practice of appearing ‘doll-like’. Living dolls take part in a number of beauty techniques in order to achieve a doll appearance through, for example, using wide-rimmed contact lenses, hair extensions and corsetry. An online community also holds that the living dolls achieve their appearance through the use of photo-editing technologies (e.g. Photoshop) and/or surgery—including rib removal, eye widening, breast implants and liposuction.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Aesthetic Labour: Rethinking Beauty Politics in Neoliberalism |
| Editors | Ana Sofia Elias, Rosalind Gill, Christina Scharff |
| Place of Publication | UK |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Pages | 133-148 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Volume | 1 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-137-47765-1 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-137-47764-4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 22 Jan 2017 |
Bibliographical note
The full text is not available on the repository.Keywords
- Transnational postfeminism
- Living dolls
- Kawaii
- Make-up tutorial
