Saving Face
Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8098181 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Heather Laine Talley (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 256 |
| Publication date | 2014-08-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Saving Face (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | New York University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| OpenAlex | W2490142307 |
| Open Library | OL33994712M |
| ISBN | 9781479840052 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 2 |
Winner, Body and Embodiment Award presented by the American Sociological AssociationImagine yourself without a face—the taskseems impossible. The face is a core feature of our physical identity. Our faceis how others identify us and how we think of our ‘self’. Yet, human faces arealso functionally essential as mechanisms for communication and as a means ofeating, breathing, and seeing. For these reasons, facial disfigurement canendanger our fundamental notions of self and identity or even be life threatening,at worse. Precisely because it is so difficult to conceal our faces, thedisfigured face compromises appearance, status, and, perhaps, our very way ofbeing in the world.In Saving Face, sociologist Heather LaineTalley examines the cultural meaning and social significance of interventionsaimed at repairing faces defined as disfigured
Disfigurement · Face (sociological concept · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Aesthetics · Anthropology · Dermatology · Discrimination · Discrimination & Race Relations · Disfigured persons · Face · General · Medical · Minority Studies · Physical-appearance-based bias · Plastic Surgery · Social asepcts · Social aspects · Surgery, plastic · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |