Disobedient Bodies
Product Code: 9781800817920
Weight: 200.0g
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Disobedient Bodies
by Emma Dabiri
How do our surroundings determine our relationship with our body image? Growing up Irish and Nigerian, author and broadcaster Emma Dabiri’s concept of beauty has long been defined by Eurocentric standards and what was deemed most desirable at the time (big boobs and a thigh gap). But on a journey of self-reclamation, she has learnt that beauty isn’t a physical entity, but a way of being.
In her latest book, Disobedient Bodies, the author of Don’t Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next unpacks age-old notions of beauty and reveals how the expectations and demands around it are completely contradictory. Disobedient Bodies grapples with the complicated and messy history of beauty, and how our constantly evolving (yet always unattainable) standards are entrenched in oppressive systems that hold us back.
From the Enlightenment period to the witch hunts of early modern Europe, this essay makes historical connections to our contemporary beauty standards that have been frequently overlooked. Taking the reader on a journey that charts her changing view of herself, from getting ready for teenage parties to her connection with Nigerian and Irish culture, Dabiri takes our understanding of beauty beyond the surface.
It’s an essay that calls for a radical reimagination and holistic reclamation of beauty, one that challenges us to reject the views of ‘mind and body’ as distinct entities and cherish the world around us.
This book encourages unruliness, exploring the ways in which we can rebel against and subvert the current system. Offering 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 birth right and find the inherent joy in our disobedient bodies.
by Emma Dabiri
How do our surroundings determine our relationship with our body image? Growing up Irish and Nigerian, author and broadcaster Emma Dabiri’s concept of beauty has long been defined by Eurocentric standards and what was deemed most desirable at the time (big boobs and a thigh gap). But on a journey of self-reclamation, she has learnt that beauty isn’t a physical entity, but a way of being.
In her latest book, Disobedient Bodies, the author of Don’t Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next unpacks age-old notions of beauty and reveals how the expectations and demands around it are completely contradictory. Disobedient Bodies grapples with the complicated and messy history of beauty, and how our constantly evolving (yet always unattainable) standards are entrenched in oppressive systems that hold us back.
From the Enlightenment period to the witch hunts of early modern Europe, this essay makes historical connections to our contemporary beauty standards that have been frequently overlooked. Taking the reader on a journey that charts her changing view of herself, from getting ready for teenage parties to her connection with Nigerian and Irish culture, Dabiri takes our understanding of beauty beyond the surface.
It’s an essay that calls for a radical reimagination and holistic reclamation of beauty, one that challenges us to reject the views of ‘mind and body’ as distinct entities and cherish the world around us.
This book encourages unruliness, exploring the ways in which we can rebel against and subvert the current system. Offering 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 birth right and find the inherent joy in our disobedient bodies.
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