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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in feminist criticism and theoryPublisher: New York : State University of New York Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: ix, 152 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0791462315
  • 9780791462317
  • 0791462323
  • 9780791462324
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4613 22
LOC classification:
  • BF697.5.B63 C67 2004
Contents:
Ch. 1. Abjection -- Ch. 2. Normalizing the body -- Ch. 3. Outside-in -- Ch. 4. "I'm doing it for me" -- Ch. 5. Making over abjection.
Review: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-148) and index.

Ch. 1. Abjection -- Ch. 2. Normalizing the body -- Ch. 3. Outside-in -- Ch. 4. "I'm doing it for me" -- Ch. 5. Making over abjection.

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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