The Cosmetic Gaze
Body Modification and the Construction of Beauty
$52.41
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
2 March 2012
Summary
How the act of looking at our own and others’ bodies is informed by the techniques, expectations, and strategies of body modification.If the gaze can be understood to mark the disjuncture between how we see ourselves and how we want to be seen by others, the cosmetic gaze-in Bernadette Wegenstein’s groundbreaking formulation-is one through which the act of looking at our bodies and those of others is already informed by the techniques, expectations, and strategies (often surgical) of bodily m…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262529662 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262529661 |
| Author: | Bernadette Wegenstein |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 2 March 2012 |
| Weight: | 368g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 11mm |
| Series: | The Cosmetic Gaze |
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About The Author
Bernadette Wegenstein
Bernadette Wegenstein is Research Professor in the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University, where she also directs the Center for Advanced Media Studies. The author of Getting Under the Skin- Body and Media Theory (MIT Press, 2006), she is also a documentary filmmaker.
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