The Body in the Beauty Parlor

The Body in the Beauty Parlor
Author: Judi Lynn
Publisher: Lyrical Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2021-03-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1516110226

In addition to her house-flipping talents, Jazzi Zanders is breaking ground as a sleuth. But she’s going to need every tool at her disposal to solve two crimes . . . In their hair salon, Jazzi’s sister Olivia and mother are savvy businesswomen whose creativity brings fashion and flair to the folks of Rivers Bluff, Indiana. So when their newest hairstylist Misty is caught scamming clients’ debit cards and selling beauty products during off hours to pocket the profits, Olivia fires her. But Misty retaliates by hitting back with a defamation lawsuit—which she is more than happy to drop if Olivia pays her ten grand. But neither blackmail nor courtroom fees are accrued after Misty’s body is discovered in the salon with Olivia’s scissors stuck in her chest. Olivia may be the number one suspect, but her murdered employee had a reputation for making enemies. Then Jazzi’s ex Chad appears, asking for help with his marital strife. This already awkward situation worsens when Chad’s wife vanishes and the police investigate him. Now, it’s up to Jazzi to clear both her sister’s and ex’s names while the killer—or killers—could be a mere hair breadth’s away . . .

Beauty Salon

Beauty Salon
Author: Mario Bellatin
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Total Pages: 79
Release: 2021-10-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1646050754

Mario Bellatin’s complex dreamscape, offered here in a brand-new translation, presents a timely allegorical portrait of the body and society in decay, victim to inscrutable pandemic. In a large, unnamed city, a strange, highly infectious disease begins to spread, afflicting its victims with an excruciating descent toward death, particularly unsparing in its assault of those on society's margins. Spurned by their loved ones and denied treatment by hospitals, the sick are left to die on the streets until a beauty salon owner, whose previous caretaking experience extended only to the exotic fish tanks scattered among his workstations, opens his doors as a refuge. In the ramshackle Morgue, victim to persecution and violence, he accompanies his male guests as they suffer through the lifeless anticipation of certain death, eventually leaving the wistful narrator in complete, ill-fated isolation.

God’s Beauty Parlor

God’s Beauty Parlor
Author: Stephen D. Moore
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2001
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780804743327

God's Beauty Parlor opens the Bible to the contested body of critical commentary on sex and sexuality known as queer theory and to masculinity studies. The author pursues the themes of homoeroticism, masculinity, beauty, and violence through such texts as the Song of Songs, the Gospels, the Letter to the Romans, and the Book of Revelation.

Marianna's Beauty Salon

Marianna's Beauty Salon
Author: Bushra Rehman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2018-05-24
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781943977482

Marianna's Beauty Salon is a book that traces places vanishing and places becoming. Sensual, blustery, and bold, they make "a rough map of light" where even the daily burns miraculously. - Aracelis Girmay

Beauty Shop for Rent

Beauty Shop for Rent
Author: Laura Bowers
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780152057640

Raised by a great-grandmother and a bunch of beauty shop buddies, fourteen-year-old Abbey resolves to overcome her unhappy childhood and disillusionment with the mother who deserted her.

Cosmetic, Aesthetic, Prophetic: Beyond the Boundaries of Beauty

Cosmetic, Aesthetic, Prophetic: Beyond the Boundaries of Beauty
Author: Alberto Ferreira
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2019-01-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1848885458

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016. The ever-elusive field of Beauty Studies is one that often underappreciated, yet it is a key concept across all spheres of knowledge, transcending traditional and innovative epistemologies, and providing provocative insights into fundamental aspects of human existence. Here, researchers from around the globe contribute rich and diverse ideas and perspectives from a multitude of disciplines to highlight, explore, and re-evaluate the significance and infinite implications of this pervading topic, within history, science, society, culture, new media, mathematics, art, and literature.

Beauty Up

Beauty Up
Author: Laura Miller
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2006-07-15
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0520245091

An introduction to Japan's burgeoning beauty culture, which investigates a range of phenomenon - aesthetic salons, dieting products, male beauty activities, and beauty language - to find out why Japanese women and men are paying so much attention to their bodies. It aims to challenge various assumptions about the naturalness of beauty standards.

Reading Bodies

Reading Bodies
Author: Callie Callon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2019-01-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567684423

Callie Callon investigates how some early Christian authors utilized physiognomic thought as rhetorical strategy, particularly with respect to persuasion. Callon shows how this encompassed denigrating theological opponents and forging group boundaries (invective against heretics or defence of Christians), self-representation to demonstrate the moral superiority of early Christians to Greco-Roman outsiders, and the cultivation of collective self-identity. The work begins with an overview of how physiognomy was used in broader antiquity as a component of persuasion. Callon then examines how physiognomic thought was employed by early Christians and how physiognomic tropes were employed to “prove” their orthodoxy and moral superiority. Building on the conclusions of the earlier chapters, Callon then focuses on the representation of the physiognomies of early Christian martyrs, before addressing the problem of the acceptance or even promotion of the idea of a physically lacklustre Jesus by the same authors who otherwise utilize traditional physiognomic thought.