L. Ayu Saraswati Livres

Focusing on feminine beauty, this book examines how representations and aesthetic judgments are intertwined with skin color and race. It traces the flow of beauty images across various countries, including India, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States, to Indonesia, highlighting the cultural and social implications of these exchanges. The work delves into the complexities of beauty standards and their impact on identity and perception in a global context.

"This book troubles the phenomenon of feminists turning to social media to respond to and enact the political potential of pain inflicted in the acts of sexual harassment, sexual violence, and sexual abuse. Anchoring its analysis in theories and criticisms of neoliberal feminism, this book illustrates the complexity of how in using digital platforms that are governed by neoliberal logic, feminists take on a "neoliberal self(ie) gaze" in their social media activism, potentially undercutting their work toward social justice"--

"A transnational feminist autoethnography of traveling to twenty countries in one year to find healing and have a different relationship with pain"--