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Amending the abject body : aesthetic makeovers in medicine and culture / / Deborah Caslav Covino



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Autore: Covino Deborah Caslav <1960-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Amending the abject body : aesthetic makeovers in medicine and culture / / Deborah Caslav Covino Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : State University of New York Press, c2004
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (163 p.)
Disciplina: 306.4/613
Soggetto topico: Body image in women
Self-perception in women
Women - Physiology
Human body - Social aspects
Surgery, Plastic
Feminist theory
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-148) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Abjection -- Normalizing the Body -- Outside-In -- “I’m Doing it for Me” -- Making Over Abjection -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Amending the abject body  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-7914-8433-5
1-4237-4026-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910820367303321
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Serie: SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.