Beauty and the Norm - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beauty and the Norm write by Claudia Liebelt. This book was released on 2018-08-24. Beauty and the Norm available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recent decades have seen the rise of a global beauty boom, with profound effects on perceptions of bodies worldwide. Against this background, Beauty and the Norm assembles ethnographic and conceptual approaches from a variety of disciplines and across the globe to debate standardization in bodily appearance. Its contributions range from empirical research to exploratory conversations between scholars and personal reflections. Bridging hitherto separate debates in critical beauty studies, cultural anthropology, sociology, the history of science, disability studies, gender studies, and critical race studies, this volume reflects upon the gendered, classed, and racialized body, normative regimes of representation, and the global beauty economy.
Perfect Me
Perfect Me - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perfect Me write by Heather Widdows. This book was released on 2020-02-25. Perfect Me available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today's worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to which we judge ourselves good or bad, a success or a failure. Perfect Me explores the changing nature of the beauty ideal, showing how it is more dominant, more demanding, and more global than ever before.Heather Widdows argues that our perception of the self is changing. More and more, we locate the self in the body--not just our actual, flawed bodies but our transforming and imagined ones. As this happens, we further embrace the beauty ideal. Nobody is firm enough, thin enough, smooth enough, or buff enough-not without significant effort and cosmetic intervention. And as more demanding practices become the norm, more will be required of us, and the beauty ideal will be harder and harder to resist.If you have ever felt the urge to "make the best of yourself" or worried that you were "letting yourself go," this book explains why. Perfect Me examines how the beauty ideal has come to define how we see ourselves and others and how we structure our daily practices-and how it enthralls us with promises of the good life that are dubious at best. Perfect Me demonstrates that we must first recognize the ethical nature of the beauty ideal if we are ever to address its harms.
The Beauty Myth
The Beauty Myth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Beauty Myth write by Naomi Wolf. This book was released on 2009-03-17. The Beauty Myth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of "the flawless beauty."
Hidden Beauty
Hidden Beauty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hidden Beauty write by Norman Barker. This book was released on 2013. Hidden Beauty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The appreciation of the imagery produced by disease is bittersweet; we simultaneously experience the beauty of the natural world and the pain of those living with these disease processes. Ultimately, this series of images from more than sixty medical science professionals will leave the viewer with an understanding and appreciation of visual beauty inherent within the field."--Jacket.
May Produce Gas
May Produce Gas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook May Produce Gas write by Jonathan Meres. This book was released on 2012-10-04. May Produce Gas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It seems like the whole world has gone mad. His dad's obsessed with gas, his best friend has come down with a case of hormones and his brother is in dire need of deodorant. Looks like there's going to be quite a stink. Is life still unfair for Norm? ABSO-FLIPPING-LUTELY! Jonathan Meres follows up May Contain Nuts and May Cause Irritation with another laugh-out-loud story about Norm, a boy who can't understand why everything always seems unfair...
