Saving Face : Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance, Paperback by Tall...

Description: Saving Face : Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance, Paperback by Talley, Heather Laine, ISBN 0814784119, ISBN-13 9780814784112, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US "Imagine yourself without a face--the task seems impossible. The face is a core feature of our physical identity. Our face is how others identify us and how we think of our 'self'. Yet, human faces are also functionally essential as mechanisms for communication and as a means of eating, breathing, and seeing. For these reasons, facial disfigurement can endanger our fundamental notions of self and identity or even be life threatening, at worse. Precisely because it is so difficult to conceal our faces, the disfigured face compromises appearance, status, and, perhaps, our very way of being in the Saving Face, sociologist Heather Laine Talley examines the cultural meaning and social significance of interventions aimed at repairing faces defined as disfigured. Using ethnography, participant-observation, content analysis, interviews, and autoethnography, Talley explores four sites in which a range of faces are "repaired:" face transplantation, facial feminization surgery, the reality show Extreme Makeover, and the international charitable organization Operation Smile,. Throughout, she considers how efforts focused on repair sometimes intensify the stigma associated with disfigurement. Drawing upon experiences volunteering at a camp for children with severe burns, Talley also considers alternative interventions and everyday practices that both challenge stigma and help those seen as disfigured negotiate outsider delves into the promise and limits of facial surgery, continually examining how we might understand appearance as a facet of privilege and a dimension of inequality. Ultimately, she argues that facial work is not simply a conglomeration of reconstructive techniques aimed at the human face, but rather, that appearance interventions are increasingly treated as lifesaving work. Especially at a time when aesthetic technologies carrying greater risk are emerging and when discrimination based on appearance is rampant, this important book challenges us to think critically about how we see the human face"--

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Book Title: Saving Face : Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance

Number of Pages: 256 Pages

Publication Name: Saving Face : Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance

Language: English

Publisher: New York University Press

Subject: Discrimination & Race Relations, Sociology / General, Surgery / Plastic & Cosmetic, Aesthetics, Social Psychology, Anthropology / General

Item Height: 0.7 in

Publication Year: 2014

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 12.8 Oz

Item Length: 8.9 in

Subject Area: Philosophy, Social Science, Psychology, Medical

Author: Heather Laine Talley

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Trade Paperback