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OverviewLosing her smile to synkinesis after unresolved Bell's Palsy changed how Faye Linda Wachs was seen by others and her internal experience of self. In Metamorphosis, interviewing over 100 people with acquired facial difference challenged her presumptions about identity, disability, and lived experience. Participants described microaggressions, internalizations, and minimalizations, and their impact on identity. Heartbreakingly, synkinesis disrupts the ability to have shared moments. When one experiences spontaneous emotion, wrong nerves trigger mis-feel and misperception by others. One is misread by others and receives confusing internal information. Communication of and to the self is irrevocably damaged. Wachs describes the experience as a social disability. People found a host of creative ways to reinvigorate their sense of self and self-expression. Like so many she interviewed, Wachs experiences a process of change and growth as she is challenged to think more deeply about ableism, identity, and who she wants to be. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Faye Linda WachsPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.313kg ISBN: 9781978805316ISBN 10: 1978805314 Pages: 226 Publication Date: 15 September 2023 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviews“Metamorphosis is a groundbreaking, nuanced study of the experience of facial paralysis (FP) and synkinesis. This is the first academic book on synkinesis or facial paralysis, and Wachs is the perfect person to write it.” -- Kathleen Bogart * Director of the Disability and Social Interaction Lab at Oregon State University * “Metamorphosis is an important contribution to sociology of the body, critical disability, and sociology of emotion scholarship, as well as being of interest and use to anyone interested in understanding more about the nuts and bolts of face-to-face communication; Wachs is a gifted writer.” -- Travers * author of The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) Are Creating a Gender Revolution * """Metamorphosis is a groundbreaking, nuanced study of the experience of facial paralysis (FP) and synkinesis. This is the first academic book on synkinesis or facial paralysis, and Wachs is the perfect person to write it.""--Kathleen Bogart ""Director of the Disability and Social Interaction Lab at Oregon State University"" ""Metamorphosis is an important contribution to sociology of the body, critical disability, and sociology of emotion scholarship, as well as being of interest and use to anyone interested in understanding more about the nuts and bolts of face-to-face communication; Wachs is a gifted writer.""--Travers ""author of The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) Are Creating a Gender Revolution""" """Metamorphosis is a groundbreaking, nuanced study of the experience of facial paralysis (FP) and synkinesis. This is the first academic book on synkinesis or facial paralysis, and Wachs is the perfect person to write it.""--Kathleen Bogart ""director of the Disability and Social Interaction Lab at Oregon State University"" ""Metamorphosis is an important contribution to sociology of the body, critical disability, and sociology of emotion scholarship, as well as being of interest and use to anyone interested in understanding more about the nuts and bolts of face-to-face communication; Wachs is a gifted writer.""--Travers ""author of The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution""" Author InformationFAYE LINDA WACHS is a professor of sociology at Cal Poly Pomona. She is the coauthor, with Shari L. Dworkin, of the award-winning book Body Panic: Gender, Health and the Selling of Fitness. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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