ISBN:
1788162889
,
9781788162883
Language:
English
Pages:
xxii, 197 Seiten
,
20 cm
Edition:
Paperback edition, revised and updated
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.4613
Keywords:
Body image in women Social aspects
;
Body image in women
;
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
;
Body image in women
;
Body image in women ; Social aspects
;
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Abstract:
Bodies in our time -- Shaping the body -- Speaking bodies -- Bodies real and not so real -- Messed-with bodies -- And so to sex -- What are bodies for?
Abstract:
In the past decades, the pressure to perfect and design our bodies has been unprecedented. Men are encouraged to surgically pump up their pecs, breast enhancement is a sweet sixteen birthday present in the suburbs of America, and eating problems - from bulimia to obesity - are growing daily, affecting children as young as six. In China, women are having their legs broken and extended by 5cms. In Iran, behind the Hijab there are 35,000 cosmetic nose reconstructions a year. The body is no longer a given and to possess a flawless one has become the ambition of millions. In her years of practice as a psychoanalyst, Susie Orbach has come to realise that the way we view our bodies is the mirror of how we view ourselves: our body becomes the measure of our worth. In this book, she raises the fundamental questions about how we arrived here and proposes a new theory on how we became embodied
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 179-188
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