A beleza abre portas: Beauty and the racialised body among black middle-class women in Salvador, Brazil

Feminist Theory 14 (2):203-218 (2013)
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Beauty is constantly lived and incorporated as a meaningful social category in Brazil and intersects with racialised and gendered ways of belonging to the Brazilian nation. In this article, I deploy ethnographic material to show how middle-class women self-identifying as black embody and experience beauty and how, through practices and discourses centred on physical appearance, they both reinforce and challenge broader social and racial inequalities in Brazil.

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