LEADER 04544nam 22006615 450 001 9910786774803321 005 20230126213208.0 010 $a1-4798-4005-X 024 7 $a10.18574/9781479840052 035 $a(CKB)3710000000203693 035 $a(EBL)1747364 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001289685 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11715933 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001289685 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11231268 035 $a(PQKB)10940482 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001329010 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1747364 035 $a(OCoLC)884647851 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse34289 035 $a(DE-B1597)547159 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781479840052 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000203693 100 $a20200723h20142014 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|un|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSaving Face $eDisfigurement and the Politics of Appearance /$fHeather Laine Talley 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cNew York University Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (270 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8147-8411-9 311 0 $a0-8147-8410-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. About Face --$t2. Facial Work --$t3. Making Faces --$t4. Not Just Another Pretty Face --$t5. Saving Face --$t6. Facing Off --$t7. At Face Value --$tLosing Face --$tAppendix. Methods, Methodologies, and Epistemologies --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aWinner, Body and Embodiment Award presented by the American Sociological Association Imagine yourself without a face?the task seems impossible. The face is a core feature of our physical identity. Our face is how others identify us and how we think of our ?self?. Yet, human faces are also functionally essential as mechanisms for communication and as a means of eating, breathing, and seeing. For these reasons, facial disfigurement can endanger our fundamental notions of self and identity or even be life threatening, at worse. Precisely because it is so difficult to conceal our faces, the disfigured face compromises appearance, status, and, perhaps, our very way of being in the world. In Saving Face, sociologist Heather Laine Talley examines the cultural meaning and social significance of interventions aimed at repairing faces defined as disfigured. Using ethnography,participant-observation, content analysis, interviews, and autoethnography, Talley explores four sites in which a range of faces are ?repaired:? face transplantation, facial feminization surgery, the reality show Extreme Makeover, and the international charitable organization Operation Smile. Throughout, she considers how efforts focused on repair sometimes intensify the stigma associated with disfigurement. Drawing upon experiences volunteering at a camp for children with severe burns, Talley also considers alternative interventions and everyday practices that both challenge stigma and help those seen as disfigured negotiate outsider status.Talley delves into the promise and limits of facial surgery, continually examining how we might understand appearance as a facet of privilege and a dimension of inequality. Ultimately, she argues that facial work is not simply a conglomeration of reconstructive techniques aimed at the human face, but rather, that appearance interventions are increasingly treated as lifesaving work. Especially at a time when aesthetic technologies carrying greater risk are emerging and when discrimination based on appearance is rampant, this important book challenges us to think critically about how we see the human face. 606 $aSurgery, Plastic$xSocial aspects 606 $aPhysical-appearance-based bias 606 $aFace$xSocial aspects 606 $aDisfigured persons 606 $aAesthetics$xSocial asepcts 615 0$aSurgery, Plastic$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aPhysical-appearance-based bias. 615 0$aFace$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aDisfigured persons. 615 0$aAesthetics$xSocial asepcts. 676 $a305.908 686 $aSOC026000$aMED017000$aSOC002000$2bisacsh 700 $aTalley$b Heather Laine$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01504237 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786774803321 996 $aSaving Face$93733126 997 $aUNINA