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Amending the Abject Body

Name: Amending the Abject Body
Brand: State University of New York Press
SKU: 9780791462317
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Aesthetic Makeovers in Medicine and Culture

Autor: Deborah Caslav Covino

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Editura: State University of New York Press

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Feminist theorists have often argued that aesthetic surgeries and body makeovers dehumanize and dise...

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Autor

Deborah Caslav Covino

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2004

Pagini

172

EAN

9780791462317

Enbook ID

04702177

Editura

State University of New York Press

Greutate

354

Dimensiuni

159 x 237 x 15

Descriere completă

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.