ISBN:
1423740262
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9781423740261
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (ix, 152 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory
Parallel Title:
Print version Amending the abject body
DDC:
306.4613
Keywords:
Women Physiology
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Human body Social aspects
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Body image in women
;
Self-perception in women
;
Surgery, Plastic
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Feminist theory
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Women Physiology
;
Human body Social aspects
;
Self-perception in women
;
Women Physiology
;
Human body Social aspects
;
Surgery, Plastic
;
Feminist theory
;
Body image in women
;
Feminism
;
Self Concept
;
Surgery, Plastic psychology
;
Women
;
Body Image
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Body image in women
;
Feminist theory
;
Human body ; Social aspects
;
Self-perception in women
;
Surgery, Plastic
;
Women ; Physiology
;
Frau
;
Körperbild
;
Feminismus
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
"Feminist theorists have often argued that aesthetic surgeries and body makeovers dehumanize and disempower women patients, whose efforts at self-improvement lead to their objectification. Amending the Abject Body proposes that although objectification is an important element in this phenomenon, the explosive growth of "makeover culture" can be understood as a process of both abjection (ridding ourselves of the unwanted) and identification (joining the community of what Julia Kristeva calls "clean and proper bodies"). Drawing from the advertisement and advocacy of body makeovers on television, in aesthetic surgery trade books, and in the print and Web-based marketing of face lifts, tummy tucks, and Botox injections, Deborah Caslav Covino articulates the relationship among objectification, abjection, and identification, and offers a fuller understanding of contemporary beauty-desire."--Jacket
Abstract:
Machine generated contents note:Ch. 1Abjection --Ch. 2Normalizing the body --Ch. 3Outside-in --Ch. 4"I'm doing it for me."
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-148) and index. - Description based on print version record
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