Beauty is a long-standing keyword of feminist debate, but it is also a global, consistently growing multibillion market. I long wanted to study beauty norms and practices from a critical, ethnographic perspective.
Claudia Liebelt
Claudia Liebelt is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her research foci are in the anthropology of the body and the senses, gender and sexualities, and political anthropology and religion in the Middle East and Turkey. Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey (Syracuse University Press, 2023) is her second book. She also authored Caring for the 'Holy Land': Filipina domestic workers in Israel (Berghahn, 2011) and edited Beauty and the Norm: Debating Standardization in Bodily Appearance (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018).