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Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty 16.1 is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to present Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty 16.1!

Special Issue: ‘Black Beauty: Perspectives, Viewpoints and Representations’

Black beauty is a complex cultural construct that transcends aesthetics to embody identity, resistance and political agency. This Special Issue explores how Black beauty culture, historically rooted in rich African civilizational practices that integrated physical appearance, spiritual health and social status, has been reshaped through experiences of marginalization, commodification and cultural appropriation.

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Aims & Scope

Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty (CSFB) engages analytically, critically and creatively with fashion and/or beauty. It aims to challenge issues such as a) the conflation of fashion and beauty, b) the exclusion of masculinities, people of colour, older adults, differentially abled individuals, and queer and transgender subjectivities in fashion and/or beauty discourse and c) the blurring of distinct fashion and/or beauty industries. The journal seeks to foster more diverse and inclusive ways of understanding the field and to propel fresh theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of fashion.

This title is indexed with Scopus and the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI).

Issue 16.1

Editorial Foreword

ANNEKE SMELIK AND SUSAN B. KAISER

Introduction

Introducing ‘Black Beauty: Perspectives, Viewpoints and Representations’

SHARON N. HUGHES

Poem

Pretty

LESLIE EBONY

Articles

Capturing Black beauty: Ontological beauty through photo-elicitation