KINE 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Susan Bordo, Plastic Surgery, Body Modification
20 Apr 2016
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Paradox with beauty highly valued in society but never judge a book by its cover , all that glitters in not gold . Social construction of beauty changing definitions of beauty. Social construction of beauty consequences, hitler portraying jewish people as both physically and morally ugly, aryans as beautiful. Face as a battlefield (what you do to your face can also be damaging) Ascetic - when you engage in practices of making yourself more beautiful it is self-indulgent, promotes vanity, narcissistic. Feminist unnecessary, time consuming, can be degrading, can lead to self-hatred. Health some of these practices can be damaging to your health, e. g. tanning. The deliberate altering of the human body for non-medical reasons (tattoos, piercings) Body experts those who understand it in terms of physiology, and those who understand it socially. Can change the meaning we attach to our bodies (tattoos group affiliations, creativity, etc. ) Susan bordo: body is now cultural plastic, which means that:
