Beauty And The Norm

Author : Claudia Liebelt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319911740
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beauty and the Norm written by Claudia Liebelt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent decades have seen the rise of a global beauty boom, with profound effects on perceptions of bodies worldwide. Against this background, Beauty and the Norm assembles ethnographic and conceptual approaches from a variety of disciplines and across the globe to debate standardization in bodily appearance. Its contributions range from empirical research to exploratory conversations between scholars and personal reflections. Bridging hitherto separate debates in critical beauty studies, cultural anthropology, sociology, the history of science, disability studies, gender studies, and critical race studies, this volume reflects upon the gendered, classed, and racialized body, normative regimes of representation, and the global beauty economy.

Author : Heather Widdows
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691197148
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perfect Me written by Heather Widdows and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today's worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to which we judge ourselves good or bad, a success or a failure. 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. Perfect Me examines how the beauty ideal has come to define how we see ourselves and others and how we structure our daily practices-and how it enthralls us with promises of the good life that are dubious at best. Perfect Me demonstrates that we must first recognize the ethical nature of the beauty ideal if we are ever to address its harms.

Author : Jonathan Meres
Publisher : Orchard Books
ISBN 13 : 1408323613
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book May Produce Gas written by Jonathan Meres and published by Orchard Books. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seems like the whole world has gone mad. His dad's obsessed with gas, his best friend has come down with a case of hormones and his brother is in dire need of deodorant. Looks like there's going to be quite a stink. Is life still unfair for Norm? ABSO-FLIPPING-LUTELY! Jonathan Meres follows up May Contain Nuts and May Cause Irritation with another laugh-out-loud story about Norm, a boy who can't understand why everything always seems unfair...

Author : Naomi Wolf
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006196994X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beauty Myth written by Naomi Wolf and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of "the flawless beauty."

Author : Norm Macdonald
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812993632
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Based on a True Story written by Norm Macdonald and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Driving, wild and hilarious” (The Washington Post), here is the incredible “memoir” of the legendary actor, gambler, raconteur, and Saturday Night Live veteran. When Norm Macdonald, one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time, was approached to write a celebrity memoir, he flatly refused, calling the genre “one step below instruction manuals.” Norm then promptly took a two-year hiatus from stand-up comedy to live on a farm in northern Canada. When he emerged he had under his arm a manuscript, a genre-smashing book about comedy, tragedy, love, loss, war, and redemption. When asked if this was the celebrity memoir, Norm replied, “Call it anything you damn like.”

Author : Norm Konyu
Publisher : Titan Comics
ISBN 13 : 1787738981
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Junction written by Norm Konyu and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2022-04-06 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: September 1984 – eleven-year-old Lucas Jones vanishes from the sleepy town of Medford. June 1996 – Lucas finally returns home… and he hasn’t aged a day. Still eleven years old and unable to say where he’s been for the last twelve years, Lucas’ case baffles police and doctors alike. Their only clue is Lucas’ diary – a bizarre fantasy of a town called Kirby Junction where new houses appear out of thin air and people wait for a train that never comes. One psychologist thinks there’s a grain of truth to his tale that just might explain where Lucas has been, and it may be the key to unlocking his terrible dreams…

Author : Iman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780399532849
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beauty of Color written by Iman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlines a program of skin care and makeup for women of color, drawing on the author's experience as a supermodel and founder of a top cosmetics line to explain how to tailor a beauty regimen in accordance with a woman's particular skin tone and type. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

Author : Arthur C. Danto
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780812695403
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Abuse of Beauty written by Arthur C. Danto and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto here explains how the anti-beauty revolution was hatched, and how the modernist avant-garde dislodged beauty from its throne. Danto argues not only that the modernists were right to deny that beauty is vital to art, but also that beauty is essential to human life and need not always be excluded from art.

Author : Henderikus J. Stam
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461227461
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recent Trends in Theoretical Psychology written by Henderikus J. Stam and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was asked and, alas, with little reflection on the magnitude of the task, thoughtlessly consented, to take on the 'simple' job of writing a preface to the collection of essays comprising this volume. That I was asked to carry out this simple task was probably due to one consideration: I was the main representative of the host institution (Clark University) for the 1991 ISTP Conference, at which the talks, foreshadowing and outlining the 'extended remarks' here printed, were originally presented, and hence, as a token of gratitude, I was vouchsafed the honor of setting the stage. It did not dawn on me, until I began piecemeal to receive and accumulate, over a period of months, the remarkably diverse and heterogeneous essays precipitated by the conference, how mind-boggling it would be to pen a preface pertinent to such an aggregate of prima/acie unrelated articles. Typically, prefaces to collections of essays from different hands are attempts by the prefator or a pride of prefators to provide an overview, a concise map, of the complex terrain which readers are invited to enter; or to direct the attention of potential readers to what the editors take to be the essential or central themes of each of the variegated articles: a practice which, not infrequently and often not unjustifiably, irritates and even enrages individual authors, who object to the complexity, profundity, and nuanced character of their thought being reduced to clicMs and editorial equivalents of sound bites.

Author : Norman Miller
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 9781595553317
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Norm written by Norman Miller and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norm Miller shares the kind of wisdom you're not likely to hear from many top executives. From a humble beginning as a traveling salesman for Interstate, he worked his way up to become CEO and chairman. Miller is a believer in God's power to change lives. It was that power that turned his life around after years of drinking as hard as he worked.