Transforming Bodies
Makeovers and Monstrosities in American Culture
Published on 14. January 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
267 pages
978-1-349-69713-7 (ISBN)
Description
At the turn of the twenty-first century, American media abound with images and narratives of bodily transformations. At the crossroads of American, cultural, literary, media, gender, queer, disability and governmentality studies, the book presents a timely intervention into critical debates on body transformations and contemporary makeover culture.
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Edition
2015 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-349-69713-7 (9781349697137)
DOI
10.1057/9781137493798
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Content
PART I: BEFORE 1. Transforming Bodies: An Introduction 2. Body Thoughts: Transforming Bodies in the 'New Body Theories' PART II: TRANSFORMATIONS 3. Extreme Makeovers: Transforming Bodies in Popular Culture 4. Monstrous Makeovers: Somatechnics of Resistance in Postmodern Consumer Culture Chuck Palahniuk's Invisible Monsters 5. Troubling Subjects: Beauty, Plastic Surgery and (Non-)Normative Bodies in Cosmetic Surgical Culture FX's Nip/Tuck 6. Modifying Teens: Coming of Age in a Dystopian World of Beauty Scott Westerfeld's Uglies Series PART III: AFTER 7. Final Suture and New Before: A Conclusion