Bodies by Susie Orbach
Why We Look the Way We Do
A lucid psychoanalytic and feminist exploration of how contemporary culture shapes the ways we inhabit and experience our bodies, showing how social, historical and interpersonal forces—media, consumerism, medicine, gender norms and power relations—fragment, commodify and medicalize bodily life. The book traces connections between these forces and phenomena such as eating disorders, cosmetic surgery and the pervasive disconnection from bodily sensation, and argues for reclaiming a more embodied, emotionally truthful relationship with the body as a site of subjectivity, pleasure and political resistance.
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- Published
- 2009
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- British
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- Original Language
- English
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