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By Deborah Harris-Moore

Opposed to the history of the so-called 'obesity epidemic', Media and the Rhetoric of physique Perfection seriously examines the discourses of actual perfection that pervade Western societies, laying off new gentle at the rhetorical forces at the back of physique anxieties and severe tools of weight reduction and beautification. Drawing on wealthy interview fabric with plastic surgery sufferers and delivering clean analyses of varied texts from pop culture, together with internationally-screened reality-television exhibits together with the largest Loser, severe Makeover and The Swan in addition to leisure programmes and documentaries, this ebook examines the ways that Western media capitalise on physique anxiousness by means of providing actual perfection as an ethical vital, while ads fast and potent transformation easy methods to erase actual imperfections.With realization to modern strains of resistance to criteria of thinness and makes an attempt to redefine conceptions of good looks, Media and the Rhetoric of physique Perfection will entice students and scholars of pop culture, tv, media and cultural reviews, in addition to the sociology of the physique, feminist proposal, physique transformation and plastic surgery.

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Butler’s ideas regarding agency similarly depend on the categories gender and sexuality to explain the process of interpellation and potential areas of resistance. ” That is, the risk of claiming a complete and unified identity, even one that counters hegemonic social standards, is that it often serves to further establish those hegemonic ideals in its resistance. The only way to counter hegemonic ideals is to produce complicated and multifaceted identities: The insistence on coherent identity as a point of departure presumes that what a ‘subject’ is is already known, already fixed, and that that ready-made subject might enter the world to renegotiate its place.

Non-invasive procedures have the power of cosmetic surgery in their name, but profit on the differences: they cause less healing time, result in less pain, and cost less than actual surgeries. In fact, if you opt for certain cosmetic surgeries, you can often have the procedure and return to work immediately afterwards. Anyone else with a professional medical license can administer Botox: doctors, nurse practitioners, dermatologists, registered nurses, and even physician 18 Survival of the Fittest assistants (under supervision) (“Use of Mid-level Practitioners”).

The ability to see is always caught up in considerations of power: who sees what and from where? Haraway claims, “Vision is always a question of the power to see—and perhaps the violence implicit in our visualizing practices” (192). The ability to claim an identity or subjectivity simply puts women in the position of the “Master,” the position they have been fighting all along. Instead, “the split and contradictory self is the one who can interrogate positionings and be accountable; the one who can construct and join rational conversations and fantastic imaginings that can change history.

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