The glowy: the aesthetics of transparency in postfeminist "wellness" culture

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The glowy: the aesthetics of transparency in postfeminist "wellness" culture

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Over the past ten years or so, across the physical and virtual spaces of postfeminist culture, a novel aesthetic category has quietly but insistently taken hold: the glowy. In this article, I contextualise the glowy as the archetypal aesthetic of what has become known as “wellness culture,” an outgrowth of postfeminist culture that promotes the pursuit of an optimized state of physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing. At the same time, I make an argument about the glowy that challenges one of...

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2025-02-21

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Duncan P

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https://hdl.handle.net/10179/72571

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aesthetics / glowiness / postfeminism / skin / Wellness culture

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