Beauty Labor and Shaping Identity in the Salon: Beyond Skin Deep
By (Author) Hannah McCann
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bloomsbury Academic
22nd January 2026
United Kingdom
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Hardback
1
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
This book examines beauty practices and beauty services through empirical research in Australia with salon workers and clients in order to show the role they play in identity making. The author offers a perspective that is neither dismissive of beauty practices as trivial, inescapably patriarchal, and harmful, nor defensive of beauty via the neoliberal postfeminist rhetoric of choice.
Hannah McCann is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne.