ISBN:
9781137493781
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (273 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Steinhoff, H Transforming Bodies : Makeovers and Monstrosities in American Culture
DDC:
306.4613
Keywords:
United States-Study and teaching
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Before -- 1 Transforming Bodies: An Introduction -- 2 Body Thoughts: Transforming Bodies in the 'New Body Theories' -- Transforming bodies in academic thought -- Feminism, bodies, and their (trans)formations -- Subjects, bodies, and power from a Foucauldian perspective -- Technologies of the self, (neoliberal) governmentality, and (textual) agency -- Monstrous bodies and the (trans)formation of the norm -- Somatechnics and the transformations of somatic selves -- Transformations
Abstract:
3 Extreme Makeovers: Transforming Bodies in Popular Culture -- Magical-biological metamorphoses -- (Surgical) Makeover culture -- (Surgical) Makeover reality television -- Gendered bodies on the surgical makeover television show The Swan -- (De)Stabilizing gender on makeover television -- Self-transformations, authentic becoming, and neoliberal governmentality -- Post-feminist Swans -- Makeover, the social body, and Americanness -- Preliminary conclusions -- Re-reading The Swan
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4 Monstrous Makeovers: Somatechnics of Resistancein Postmodern Consumer Culture - Chuck Palahniuk's Invisible Monsters -- Monstrous self-transformations -- Invisible Monsters in the context of contemporary fiction and scholarly criticism -- A world of hyperreality and consumer culture -- Exposing the (body) politics of beauty and makeover culture -- Monstrous makeover and 'self-destruction' as 'self-construction' -- Arts of existence and the politics of the (in)visibility of the 'mutilated' body -- Makeover's monstrous excess and the politics of the transgender body
Abstract:
Monstrous bodies and monstrous texts -- 5 Troubling Subjects: Beauty, Plastic Surgery,and (Non-)Normative Bodies in Cosmetic Surgery Culture - FX's Nip/Tuck -- Dissecting Nip/Tuck -- Nip/Tuck in its media context and in critical studies -- Surgical identities: the self as somatic project -- Femininity, beauty, and surgical makeover culture -- Masculinity, beauty, and surgical makeover culture -- Nip/Tuck's feminist voice -- Monstrous bodies - monstrous others -- Monstrosity underneath the 'perfect' façade -- Monstrous body modifications -- Dissecting boundaries
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6 Modifying Teens: Coming of Age in a Dystopian World of Beauty - Scott Westerfeld's Uglies Series -- Dystopia of beauty -- The Uglies series in the context of youth (in) literature and makeover culture -- Makeover as ('failed') initiation -- Opposing the makeover: transforming identity and narratives -- Practicing somatechnics of resistance -- Body modification, environmentalism, and cultural democracy -- Arrival and setting out again -- After -- 7 Final Suture and New Before: A Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index
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