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Reflecting on Cosmetic Surgery: Body image, Shame and Narcissism

Autor Jane Northrop
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 mar 2014
Cosmetic surgery represents an extreme form of modern grooming. It is the fastest growing medical specialty, yet misconceptions abound about those who undertake it and their reasons for doing so. With a grounded approach, engaging 30 women through in-depth interview, this study explores how they chose cosmetic surgery as an option. Their accounts frame a theoretical discussion, in which Northrop proposes that cosmetic surgery is initiated within the vulnerable and divisive relationship between the self and its poor body image.
Poor body image and the attempt at its reparation are examined conceptually through shame and narcissism. With compelling case studies and a multi-disciplinary approach, Reflecting on Cosmetic Surgery demonstrates that shame constitutes a framework through which we formulate appearance norms and learn the art of becoming socially embodied. Shame concerns the self, but manifests in response to perceived social phenomena. Through the evaluation and amendment of body image with cosmetic surgery, notions of self and social worthiness are played out.
Northrop argues convincingly for a review of the way in which we view narcissism and proposes that shame, and the discomforts arising from it, are implicated in its occurrence. This book will appeal to students and scholars across the social sciences, and particularly in women’s studies and gender studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138020108
ISBN-10: 1138020109
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Introduction  1. Evolving Appearance Norms and Cosmetic Surgery  2. Women, Appearance and Cosmetic Surgery  3. The Mirrored Self  4. Shame and the Social Self  5. Shame and Subjective Experience  6. Evaluating Body Image  7. Shame and Cosmetic Surgery  8. Just Look at Yourself.  References.

Notă biografică

Jane Northrop has been a midwife and nurse for most of her career, and is currently combining part-time work in palliative care with a research position at the University of Tasmania (UTAS). In 2002 she completed an Honours degree in Sociology at UTAS, in which she examined the experiences of people living with Hepatitis C. She was awarded First Class Honours and received the TASA Award. In 2003 she was awarded an APA scholarship and began a PhD in the School of Sociology and Social Work at UTAS, examining the motivations of those who undertake cosmetic surgery. She received her doctorate in 2010.

Descriere

Engaging the theme of appearance dissatisfaction expressed by women who had undergone cosmetic surgery, and its subsequent impacts upon body image and self-perception, this study concludes that shame and narcissism are interrelated processes, whereby the evaluations and amendments to appearance, and the notions of self and social acceptance which underpin it, are negotiated.