Perfect Me (eBook)

Beauty as an Ethical Ideal

Heather Widdows (Autor)

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2018
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8962-4 (ISBN)

Infos

How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today's worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to which we judge ourselves good or bad, a success or a failure. Perfect Me explores the changing nature of the beauty ideal, showing how it is more dominant, more demanding, and more global than ever before.Heather Widdows argues that our perception of the self is changing. More and more, we locate the self in the body--not just our actual, flawed bodies but our transforming and imagined ones. As this happens, we further embrace the beauty ideal. Nobody is firm enough, thin enough, smooth enough, or buff enough-not without significant effort and cosmetic intervention. And as more demanding practices become the norm, more will be required of us, and the beauty ideal will be harder and harder to resist.If you have ever felt the urge to "e;make the best of yourself"e; or worried that you were "e;letting yourself go,"e; this book explains why. Perfect Me examines how the beauty ideal has come to define how we see ourselves and others and how we structure our daily practices-and how it enthralls us with promises of the good life that are dubious at best. Perfect Me demonstrates that we must first recognize the ethical nature of the beauty ideal if we are ever to address its harms.

Autor

Heather Widdows is the John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham. Her books include Global Ethics: An Introduction, The Connected Self: The Ethics and Governance of the Genetic Individual, and The Moral Vision of Iris Murdoch.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.5.2018
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Admiration • Adobe • Advertising • asymmetry • attractiveness • Beauty • Beauty Salon • Blepharoplasty • body hair • Body Image • Body Modification • body shape • Breast Augmentation • breast implant • Buttocks • Calculation • Cellulite • Clothing • Competition • conformity • Corset • Cosmetics • Criticism • Demography • Dieting • Disgust • Emergence • Empowerment • Explanation • false consciousness • femininity • Feminism • Feminism (international relations) • Gaze • Gender Role • Hair Removal • Hairstyle • Health • Heteronormativity • Human hair color • human skin color • Ideology • Iris Murdoch • I Wish (manhwa) • Kim Kardashian • Labiaplasty • Liposuction • Lookism • Lotion • Makeover • manicure • Marie Claire • Masculinity • Meta-analysis • Morality • nail polish • Narcissism • narrative • Norm (social) • Obesity • Objectification • opportunity cost • Oppression • Pallor • Personhood • phenomenon • Philosopher • Plastic Surgery • Pornography • Prejudice • Profession • Pubic hair • Race (human categorization) • Racism • Requirement • Risk of infection • self-esteem • Self-objectification • Sexism • sexual attraction • sexual desire • sexualization • sexual objectification • Shame • Statistic • Subculture • Subjectivity • Suggestion • Surrogacy • Susie Orbach • Sympathy • Technology • Testimonial • the beauty myth • The Thin Ideal • Visual Culture • vulnerability • weight loss • Westernization • wrinkle
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8962-6 / 1400889626
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8962-4 / 9781400889624