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Disobedient Bodies

Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty
By Emma Dabiri
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Disobedient Bodies by Emma Dabiri explores the cultural history and politics of beauty standards, focusing on the societal pressures that dictate how people, particularly women, should present themselves. The book critically examines the ways in which personal appearance connects to broader issues of identity and power, urging readers to question the conformity and constraints imposed by mainstream beauty ideals. This insightful work offers a compelling critique of how disobedience can serve as a form of empowerment and resistance.
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You might enjoy this book if you are interested in exploring the intersection of identity, beauty, and societal norms, engaging with insightful essays that challenge conventional ideas about the body. Emma Dabiri offers a thought-provoking examination of how cultural dynamics shape our understanding of physicality.

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Disobedient Bodies

An act of rebellion and a reclamation of beauty

An act of rebellion and a reclamation of beauty

Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Description
An unmissable, radical essay from Emma Dabiri, bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next

What part of your beautiful self were you taught to hate? We spend a lot of time trying to improve our 'defects', according to society's ideals of beauty. But these ideals are often reductive, tyrannical, and commercially entangled, imposed upon us by oppressive systems and further strengthened by our conditioned self-loathing.

Disobedient Bodies encourages unruliness, exploring the ways in which we can rebel against and subvert the current system. It offers alternative ways of seeing beauty, drawing on other cultures, worldviews, times, and places, as well as looking beyond the capitalist model to reconnect with our birthright and find the inherent joy in our disobedient bodies.

This book accompanies The Cult of Beauty, a major exhibition at Wellcome Collection in autumn 2023.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781800817920

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 October 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wellcome Collection

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 110.0mm

Height: 178.0mm

Weight: 120g

Pages: 160

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Education & Reference Emma Dabiri Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism

About the Author

Emma Dabiri spent over a decade as a teaching fellow in the African department at SOAS. She is a final year Visual Sociology PhD researcher at Goldsmiths, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and author of the Sunday Times bestseller What White People Can Do Next and Don't Touch My Hair. She has presented several television and radio programmes including BBC Radio 4's critically-acclaimed documentaries 'Journeys into Afro-futurism' and 'Britain's Lost Masterpieces' and the Cannes Silver Lion award winning Hair Power for Channel 4. She is a Contributing Editor at Elle and runs the Instagram account, Disobedient Bodies.

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