Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful cultural practices in the West: Women and Psychology
Autor Sheila Jeffreysen Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 dec 2014
The United Nations concept of "harmful traditional/cultural practices" provides a useful lens for the author to advance her critique. She makes the case for including Western beauty practices within this definition, examining their role in damaging women's health, creating sexual difference and enforcing female deference.
First-wave feminists of the 1970s criticized pervasive beauty regimes such as dieting and depilation, but a later argument took hold that beauty practices were no longer oppressive now that women could "choose" them. In recent years the reality of Western beauty practices has become much more bloody and severe, requiring the breaking of skin and the rearrangement or amputation of body parts. Beauty and Misogyny seeks to make sense of why beauty practices have not only persisted but become more extreme. It examines the pervasive use of makeup, the misogyny of fashion and high-heeled shoes, and looks at the role of pornography in the creation of increasingly popular beauty practices such as breast implants, genital waxing, surgical alteration of the labia and other forms of self-mutilation. The book concludes by considering how a culture of resistance to these practices can be created.
A new and thoroughly updated edition of this essential work will appeal to all levels of students and teachers of gender studies, cultural studies and feminist psychology, and to anyone with an interest in feminism, women and beauty, and women's health.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781848724488
ISBN-10: 1848724489
Pagini: 214
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Women and Psychology
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1848724489
Pagini: 214
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Women and Psychology
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
General, Postgraduate, and UndergraduateCuprins
Introduction 1. The ‘grip of culture on the body’: beauty practices as women’s agency or women’s subordination 2. Harmful beauty practices and western culture 3. Transfemininity: ‘Dressed’ men reveal the naked reality of male power 4. Pornochic: prostitution constructs beauty 5. Fashion and Misogyny 6. Making up is hard to do 7. Men’s foot and shoe fetishism and the disabling of women 8. Cutting Up Women: beauty practices as self-mutilation by proxy Conclusion: A culture of resistance
Notă biografică
Sheila Jeffreys is Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, where she teaches sexual politics and international feminist politics. Before coming to Melbourne in 1991, she was active in the Women’s Liberation Movement in the UK from 1973, campaigning against pornography and violence against women, and in lesbian feminist politics. In Australia she is involved in the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women. She has written nine books on the history and politics of sexuality.
Recenzii
"This is without doubt the most sophisticated, well-researched, and compelling book ever written about the ways the ‘beauty’ industry produces and reproduces misogyny. Written from an unapologetically radical feminist perspective, students describe Beauty and Misogyny as transformative and life-changing."– Gail Dines, Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, Wheelock College, Boston, USA
Praise for the first edition
"Beauty and Misogyny belongs in women's studies and public health classes and on the shelves of academics, clinicians, and parents of daughters. It would benefit any woman who was considering plastic surgery or buying a new tube of lipstick." – Michele Hoffnung, Quinnipiac University, USA in PsycCRITIQUES
"Jeffreys’ mission is to shift women out of their collective complacency. The book’s central theme is an exploration of the use of sexuality by men to dominate women. Jeffreys offers no comfort zone for her readers. Unlike some feminist theorists, she refuses to couch her arguments in inaccessible, academic language, or to accept that feminism has achieved its aims." – Julie Bindel, The Guardian
Praise for the first edition
"Beauty and Misogyny belongs in women's studies and public health classes and on the shelves of academics, clinicians, and parents of daughters. It would benefit any woman who was considering plastic surgery or buying a new tube of lipstick." – Michele Hoffnung, Quinnipiac University, USA in PsycCRITIQUES
"Jeffreys’ mission is to shift women out of their collective complacency. The book’s central theme is an exploration of the use of sexuality by men to dominate women. Jeffreys offers no comfort zone for her readers. Unlike some feminist theorists, she refuses to couch her arguments in inaccessible, academic language, or to accept that feminism has achieved its aims." – Julie Bindel, The Guardian
Descriere
The new edition of Beauty and Misogyny revisits and updates Sheila Jeffreys' uncompromising critique of Western beauty practice and the industries and ideologies behind it.