Bodies

Informationen zum Autor Susie Orbach is a psychoanalyst and writer. She co-founded The Women's Therapy Centre in 1976 and is the author of many books including Fat is a Feminist Issue! Hunger Strike! On Eating! The Impossibility of Sex and Bodies. Susie has a clinical practise seeing individuals and couples.Find her on Twitter @psychoanalysis Klappentext In the past decades! the pressure to create the perfect body has led to surgical enhancements for teenagers! eating disorders affecting children as young as 6 and people having both legs broken in order to become 5cm taller. But how did we arrive at this state? ´A timely counterblast against our harsh new visual culture, obsessed with the perfection of the physical self.´ - The Times Zusammenfassung In the past decades! the pressure to perfect and design our bodies has been unprecedented. Men are encouraged to surgically pump up their pecs! breast enhancement is a sweet sixteen birthday present in the suburbs of America. This book raises the fundamental questions about how we arrived here and proposes a fresh theory on how we became embodied.

Product details

• Authors: Susie Orbach
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2011
• EAN: 9781846680298
• ISBN: 978-1-84668-029-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 195 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Big Ideas; Big Ideas
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Körper (menschlich), Schönheitsoperation, Schönheitschirurgie