KINE 1000 Lecture Notes - Body Modification, Gabby Douglas
20 Dec 2013
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Paradox (cid:173) never judge a book by its cover (cid:173) beauty is only skin deep (cid:173) all that glitter is not gold . Face as a mask (cid:173) the social face (cid:173) the private face (cid:173) the made up mask. Body modification (cid:173) the deliberate altering of the human body for non-medical reasons. Plastic surgery as an example of body modification. Criticisms of plastic surgery (cid:173) dangerous (cid:173) superficial (cid:173) unattainable person (cid:173) narcissistic. In the u. s men underwent 1. 2 million procedures. 25-33% of cosmetic surgery patients in canada are men. Foucault (cid:173) power circulates (cid:173) discipline a mechanism of power to regulate behavior (cid:173) docile body. Plastic surgery as a way with which to look normal (cid:173) foucault: normalizing judgment. But what is normal ? (cid:173) gimlin: diminished markers of sex or genders or race or ethnicity or class or age etc.
