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Indlæser... Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful cultural practices in the West (2005)af Sheila Jeffreys
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. I'm just not able to finish this. There are some interesting ideas in this book, although I think the whole take on homosexuality and transgender is a bit simplified and, to be honest, strange. For the subject matter I'd love to finish it, but this would need some editing... On the other hand this doesn't really give me a lot of new ideas, so decided to lem it. If you want to feel sick all over, read the chapter about labiaplasty... ( ) An interesting thesis that would have been more effectively presented if the author had kept her personal preferences out of the way. While I would cite to the book only with extreme caution, lest it be inferred that you endorse her anti-gay male attitudes, or her conviction that anyone who wants to dress in anything more than flannel shirts and ill-fitting jeans is a "masochist" (among an extensive list of questionable positions), the text can provide some helpful references to other literature that is less dogmatic and more objective. The argument suffers from a lack of awareness of psychology--evolutionary psychology particularly--or sociology, instead treating politics as offering a complete frame from which to consider the dynamics of beauty standards. The author paints a picture of a cabal of male fetishists who conspire to inflict the whole suite of wretched practices upon women, who are uniformly described as passive, lacking agency or motivations of their own to either reject the pressures or explain why they in fact not only fail to reject the practices but appear to adopt them wholeheartedly. False consciousness fails as a persuasive explanatory model, but it seems to be the best this author can muster. Despite flaws in both theory and method, the text nonetheless can be helpful to anyone looking for a point of entry to the discussion. Just don't stop with this. The book's style is not user-friendly; nevertheless, I am glad I read on and finished this book. The author explicitly makes note of modern practises that I personally found uncomfortable but did not have the right words to describe my discomfort: - usage of public space by men and women (women are expected to occupy smaller public space) - inadequate pockets in women's wear (small pockets or lack thereof forces women to carry purses) - toe cleavage in shoes compared to breast cleavage - high heels compared to Chinese foot binding ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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The new edition of Beauty and Misogyny revisits and updates Sheila Jeffreys' uncompromising critique of Western beauty practice and the industries and ideologies behind it. Jeffreys argues that beauty practices are not related to individual female choice or creative expression, but represent instead an important aspect of women's oppression. As these practices have become increasingly brutal and pervasive, the need to scrutinize and dismantle them is if anything more urgent now as it was in 2005 when the first edition of the book was published. The United Nations concept of "harmful traditional/cultural practices" provides a useful lens for the author to advance her critique. She makes the case for including Western beauty practices within this definition, examining their role in damaging women's health, creating sexual difference and enforcing female deference. First-wave feminists of the 1970s criticized pervasive beauty regimes such as dieting and depilation, but a later argument took hold that beauty practices were no longer oppressive now that women could "choose" them. In recent years the reality of Western beauty practices has become much more bloody and severe, requiring the breaking of skin and the rearrangement or amputation of body parts. Beauty and Misogyny seeks to make sense of why beauty practices have not only persisted but become more extreme. It examines the pervasive use of makeup, the misogyny of fashion and high-heeled shoes, and looks at the role of pornography in the creation of increasingly popular beauty practices such as breast implants, genital waxing, surgical alteration of the labia and other forms of self-mutilation. The book concludes by considering how a culture of resistance to these practices can be created. A new and thoroughly updated edition of this essential work will appeal to all levels of students and teachers of gender studies, cultural studies and feminist psychology, and to anyone with an interest in feminism, women and beauty, and women's health. No library descriptions found. |
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