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,Most Days I’m Beautiful,ost days I’m beautiful. Like today, as I sit in the market next to an elderly little grandmother who grins toothlessly at me as she strokes my arm.

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Refashioning Global Bodies,d postcolonial trajectories map onto women’s altered embodiments (Dewey 2008; Mani 1998; Otis 2012). These bodies represent a nation’s shift toward modernity (Rofel 1999) through economic progress and development. Bodily practices and markers of appearance such as dress, makeup, and grooming are veh

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(More Than a Mouthful),Hooters in Colombia. In the United States, the Hooters Girl is constructed as embodying the “all American cheerleader” and “surfer girl next door.” These constructions connote a particular kind of femininity and sexuality, one that is decidedly white, US middle class, and heterosexual. Yet, this par

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Reproducing Beauty,ndering what would happen if she used the skin-lightening one on my pasty Scottish face, ran oil through my hair, and gave me a brightly colored ., a very popular style of Somali dress. These dresses, worn by women of all ages, were fairly universal in size and somewhat shapeless, but worn with an u

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Metrosexuality as a Body Discourse,of unity and community between people who will never interact directly. Human figures and bodies often serve as such symbols, either as allegorical personifications of nations (often female, such as the Statue of Liberty and Marianne of France), or when the exceptional fame of a real-life hero of on

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Humour in British First World War Literatured postcolonial trajectories map onto women’s altered embodiments (Dewey 2008; Mani 1998; Otis 2012). These bodies represent a nation’s shift toward modernity (Rofel 1999) through economic progress and development. Bodily practices and markers of appearance such as dress, makeup, and grooming are veh