Body Outlaws collects a wide range of essays that give collective voice to the first feminist generation to consciously repudiate the dominant beauty standard in order to feel at home in their bodies. Writers like Nomy Lamm and Lisa Jervis (editor of Bitch magazine) explore new paradigms of women who use their bodies as symbols of power, sites of resistance, and mediums of expression.
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"[Body Outlaws] is impressive both in its scope and its perceptive, inquisitive writing. Hats off to Edut for collecting a truly multi-ethnic, multi-racial, multi-everything ensemble."
Book Description:
In a culture where plastic surgery has become nearly as routine as a root canal, this expanded and updated edition of fresh and incisive commentary challenges the media's standard notions of beauty with honesty and humour.
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- PublisherSeal Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1580050433
- ISBN 13 9781580050432
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages264
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