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Amending the Abject Body

Autor Deborah Caslav Covino
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 oct 2004
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.
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ISBN-13: 9780791462317
ISBN-10: 0791462315
Pagini: 162
Dimensiuni: 159 x 237 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: State University of New York Press

Notă biografică

Deborah Caslav Covino is Associate Professor of English at California State University Stanislaus.