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Author : Alvaro Jarrín
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520293885
The eugenesis of beauty -- Plastic governmentality -- The circulation of beauty -- Hope, affect, mobility -- The raciology of beauty -- Cosmetic citizens
Author : Alvaro Jarrín
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520293878
The eugenesis of beauty -- Plastic governmentality -- The circulation of beauty -- Hope, affect, mobility -- The raciology of beauty -- Cosmetic citizens
Author : Alvaro Jarrín,Chiara Pussetti
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781805394464
The technological capacity to transform biology - repairing, reshaping and replacing body parts, chemicals and functions – is now part of our lives. Humanity is confronted with a variety of affordable and non-invasive 'enhancement technologies': anti-ageing medicine, aesthetic surgery, cognitive and sexual enhancers, lifestyle drugs, prosthetics and hormone supplements. This collection focuses on why people find these practices so seductive and provides ethnographic insights into people’s motives and aspirations as they embrace or reject enhancement technologies, which are closely entangled with negotiations over gender, class, age, nationality and ethnicity.
Author : Alexander Edmonds
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-13
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780822348016
This ethnographic account of Brazils emergence as a global leader in plastic surgery takes readers from Ipanema socialite circles to telenovela studios to the packed waiting rooms of public hospitals offering free cosmetic surgery.
Author : Paul B. Preciado
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781558618381
This visionary book on gender and sexuality weaves together high theory and intimate memoir, with "spectacular" results—"and the gendered body will never be the same again" (Jack Halberstam). What constitutes a "real" man or woman in the twenty-first century? Since birth control pills, erectile dysfunction remedies, and factory-made testosterone and estrogen were developed, biology is definitely no longer destiny. In this penetrating analysis of gender, Paul B. Preciado shows the ways in which the synthesis of hormones since the 1950s has fundamentally changed how gender and sexual identity are formulated, and how the pharmaceutical and pornography industries are in the business of creating desire. This riveting continuation of Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality also includes Preciado's diaristic account of his own use of testosterone every day for one year, and its mesmerizing impact on his body as well as his imagination.
Author : Rebecca M. Herzig
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479852819
"From using clamshell razors and homemade lye depilatories in the colonial era to using diode lasers and prescription pharmaceuricals in the twenty-first century, Americans have gone to great lengths to remove body hair demmed unsightly, unattractive, or unhealthy. In Plucked, Rebecca M. Herzig examines both the causes and consequences of routine hair removal in the U.S. Plucked illuminates some of the broad social and environmental effects of seemingly 'personal' choices: widespread experimentation on animals, exploitation of workers, exacerbation of racial divisions, and more. An engrossing, multidimensional history of fulctural attitudes toward body hair and the increasingly sophisticated tools used to remove it, Plucked reveals the complex political significance of even the most mundane activities of modern life."--Back cover.
Author : Jinthana Haritaworn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317040446
Debates over who belongs in Europe and who doesn't increasingly speak the language of mixing, but how are the figures commonly described as 'mixed' actually embodied? The Biopolitics of Mixing invites us to reckon with the spectres of pathologization past and present, placing the celebration of mixing beside moral panics over terrorism and trafficking and a post-race multiculturalism that elevates some as privileged members of the neoliberal community, whilst ghosting others from it. Drawing on a broad archive including rich qualitative interviews conducted in Britain and Germany, media and policy debates, popular culture, race-based research and queer-of-colour theories, this book imagines into being communities in which people and places normally kept separate can coexist in the same reality. As such, it will appeal to scholars across a range of sociological and cultural studies, including critical race, ethnic and migration studies, transnational gender and queer studies, German and European studies, Thai and Southeast Asian studies, and studies of affect, performativity, biopolitics and necropolitics. It should be read by all those interested in thinking critically on the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality and disability.
Author : Elizabeth Wissinger
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814794180
Over the last four decades, the fashion modeling industry has become a lightning rod for debates about Western beauty ideals, the sexual objectification of women, and consumer desire. Yet, fashion models still captivate, embodying all that is cool, glam, hip, and desirable. They are a fixture in tabloids, magazines, fashion blogs, and television. Why exactly are models so appealing? And how do these women succeed in so soundly holding our attention? In This Year’s Model, Elizabeth Wissinger weaves together in-depth interviews and research at model castings, photo shoots, and runway shows to offer a glimpse into the life of the model throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Once an ad hoc occupation, the “model life” now involves a great deal of physical and virtual management of the body, or what Wissinger terms “glamour labor.” Wissinger argues that glamour labor—the specialized modeling work of self-styling, crafting a ‘look,’ and building an image—has been amplified by the rise of digital media, as new technologies make tinkering with the body’s form and image easy. Models can now present self-fashioning, self-surveillance, and self-branding as essential behaviors for anyone who is truly in the know and ‘in fashion.’ Countless regular people make it their mission to achieve this ideal, not realizing that technology is key to creating the unattainable standard of beauty the model upholds—and as Wissinger argues, this has been the case for decades, before Photoshop even existed. Both a vividly illustrated historical survey and an incisive critique of fashion media, This Year’s Model demonstrates the lasting cultural influence of this unique form of embodied labor.
Author : Christopher Mayes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317382379
A growing sense of urgency over obesity at the national and international level has led to a proliferation of medical and non-medical interventions into the daily lives of individuals and populations. This work focuses on the biopolitical use of lifestyle to govern individual choice and secure population health from the threat of obesity. The characterization of obesity as a threat to society caused by the cumulative effect of individual lifestyles has led to the politicization of daily choices, habits and practices as potential threats. This book critically examines these unquestioned assumptions about obesity and lifestyle, and their relation to wider debates surrounding neoliberal governmentality, biopolitical regulation of populations, discipline of bodies, and the possibility of community resistance. The rationale for this book follows Michel Foucault’s approach of problematization, addressing the way lifestyle is problematized as a biopolitical domain in neoliberal societies. Mayes argues that in response to the threat of obesity, lifestyle has emerged as a network of disparate knowledges, relations and practices through which individuals are governed toward the security of the population’s health. Although a central focus is government health campaigns, this volume demonstrates that the network of lifestyle emanates from a variety of overlapping domains and disciplines, including public health, clinical medicine, media, entertainment, school programs, advertising, sociology and ethics. This book offers a timely critique of the continued interventions into the lives of individuals and communities by government agencies, private industries, medical and non-medical experts in the name of health and population security and will be of interests to students and scholars of critical international relations theory, health and bioethics and governmentality studies.
Author : Alvaro Jarrín,Chiara Pussetti
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800730328
The technological capacity to transform biology - repairing, reshaping and replacing body parts, chemicals and functions – is now part of our lives. Humanity is confronted with a variety of affordable and non-invasive 'enhancement technologies': anti-ageing medicine, aesthetic surgery, cognitive and sexual enhancers, lifestyle drugs, prosthetics and hormone supplements. This collection focuses on why people find these practices so seductive and provides ethnographic insights into people’s motives and aspirations as they embrace or reject enhancement technologies, which are closely entangled with negotiations over gender, class, age, nationality and ethnicity.
Author : Dana Berkowitz
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479825264
Introducing botox -- Marketing agelessness -- The turf war over botox -- Becoming the botox user -- Negotiating the botoxed self -- Being in the botoxed body -- Conclusion: the perils of an enhanced society
Author : M. Foucault,Arnold I. Davidson,Graham Burchell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230594180
Foucault continues on the theme of his 1978 course by focusing on the study of liberal and neo-liberal forms of government and concentrating in particular on two forms of neo-liberalism: German post-war liberalism and the liberalism of the Chicago School.
Author : Fatimah Tobing Rony
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478021902
In How Do We Look? Fatimah Tobing Rony draws on transnational images of Indonesian women as a way to theorize what she calls visual biopolitics—the ways visual representation determines which lives are made to matter more than others. Rony outlines the mechanisms of visual biopolitics by examining Paul Gauguin’s 1893 portrait of Annah la Javanaise—a trafficked thirteen-year-old girl found wandering the streets of Paris—as well as US ethnographic and documentary films. In each instance, the figure of the Indonesian woman is inextricably tied to discourses of primitivism, savagery, colonialism, exoticism, and genocide. Rony also focuses on acts of resistance to visual biopolitics in film, writing, and photography. These works, such as Rachmi Diyah Larasati’s The Dance that Makes You Vanish, Vincent Monnikendam’s Mother Dao (1995), and the collaborative films of Nia Dinata, challenge the naturalized methods of seeing that justify exploitation, dehumanization, and early death of people of color. By theorizing the mechanisms of visual biopolitics, Rony elucidates both its violence and its vulnerability.
Author : Timothy C. Campbell,Adam Sitze
Publisher : A John Hope Franklin Center Book
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biopolitics
ISBN : 0822353350
A compilation of the primary texts--by Foucault, Arendt, Agamben, Badiou, and other theorists--that laid the ground for contemporary thinking about biopolitics, or the relations between life and politics.
Author : Shirley Anne Tate,Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030839475
This handbook unravels the complexities of the global and local entanglements of race, gender and intersectionality within racial capitalism in times of #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter, the Chilean uprising, Anti-Muslim racism, backlash against trans and queer politics, and global struggles against modern colonial femicide and extractivism. Contributors chart intersectional and decolonial perspectives on race and gender research across North America, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and South Africa, centering theoretical understandings of how these categories are imbricated and how they operate and mean individually and together. This book offers new ways to think about what is absent/present and why, how erasure works in historical and contemporary theoretical accounts of the complexity of lived experiences of race and gender, and how, as new issues arise, intersectionalities (re)emerge in the politics of race and gender. This handbook will be of interest to students and scholars across the social sciences and humanities.