Perfect me : beauty as an ethical ideal
Heather Widdows
Bok · Engelsk · 2018
| Utgitt | Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2018
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| Omfang | xiii, 341
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| Opplysninger | 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.
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| ISBN | 9780691197142
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