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Author: Heather Laine Talley
Publisher: New York University Press
Imprint: New York University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.30cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.386kg
ISBN: 9780814784105
ISBN 10: 0814784100
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 15 August 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Talley has a talent for moving between sound empirical findings and subtle theoretical conceptions of the meaning of having at least a normal if not actually beautiful face in contemporary society. Particularly outstanding about the author's work is her insistence on analyzing the meaning of being ugly in a society that valorizes the value of being beautiful. -Rosemarie Tong, author of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics: Theoretical Reflections and Practical Applications
Saving Face offers a persuasive and sociologically rich portrayal of facial disfigurement. Beauty culture depends more upon the 'normal' and unremarkable - rather than the exceptional - face than is usually acknowledged, and Talley offers a fascinating account of how unremarkability is medically, culturally and socially produced. The ethics and politics of reconstructive surgery are not straightforward; Talley gives the subject an admirably nuanced and sensitive treatment. -Victoria Pitts-Taylor, author of Surgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture
"""Saving Face offers a persuasive and sociologically rich portrayal of facial disfigurement. Beauty culture depends more upon the 'normal' and unremarkable - rather than the exceptional - face than is usually acknowledged, and Talley offers a fascinating account of how unremarkability is medically, culturally and socially produced. The ethics and politics of reconstructive surgery are not straightforward; Talley gives the subject an admirably nuanced and sensitive treatment."" -- Victoria Pitts-Taylor,author of Surgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture ""Saving Face can be read as an intervention into beauty culture and liberal feminism's championing of it, while also striving to shake up contemporary beliefs about ugliness, disfigurement, and the ways in which more and more people are battling 'social death.'"" * PopMatters * ""Interested in the question of inequality and gender relations, Talleys most compelling chapter is on a dual analysis of surgeons justifications for facial surgery and various studies concerning transsexuality and bodily gendered expectations."" * Sociology of Health and Illness *"
Author Information
Heather Laine Talley is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Western Carolina University. More about her writing and work can be found at www.heatherlainetalley.com.
