Costache [Abstract]

Fat, fire and fluids: a research note on the objects in the everyday life of a beauty salon  [Full text]

Monica Costache  [1]

Abstract: This research note brings together two “lost and found” items in social theory: “the body” and the “the object”. The goal is to explain how body objectification is being produced in the hybrid social space of a beauty centre.

Keywords: Apparatus, body project, object, fat, pain


[1] Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest, monica.costache@sas.unibuc.ro