Author: Heather Laine Talley
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 147984005X
Size: 19.50 MB
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Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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Winner, Body and Embodiment Award presented by the American Sociological Association Imagine yourself without a face--the task seems impossible. The face is a core feature of our physical identity. Our face is how others identify us and how we think of our 'self'. Yet, human faces are also functionally essential as mechanisms for communication and as a means of eating, breathing, and seeing. For these reasons, facial disfigurement can endanger our fundamental notions of self and identity or even be life threatening, at worse. Precisely because it is so difficult to conceal our faces, the disfigured face compromises appearance, status, and, perhaps, our very way of being in the world. In Saving Face, sociologist Heather Laine Talley examines the cultural meaning and social significance of interventions aimed at repairing faces defined as disfigured. Using ethnography, participant-observation, content analysis, interviews, and autoethnography, Talley explores four sites in which a range of faces are "repaired:" face transplantation, facial feminization surgery, the reality show Extreme Makeover, and the international charitable organization Operation Smile. Throughout, she considers how efforts focused on repair sometimes intensify the stigma associated with disfigurement. Drawing upon experiences volunteering at a camp for children with severe burns, Talley also considers alternative interventions and everyday practices that both challenge stigma and help those seen as disfigured negotiate outsider status. Talley delves into the promise and limits of facial surgery, continually examining how we might understand appearance as a facet of privilege and a dimension of inequality. Ultimately, she argues that facial work is not simply a conglomeration of reconstructive techniques aimed at the human face, but rather, that appearance interventions are increasingly treated as lifesaving work. Especially at a time when aesthetic technologies carrying greater risk are emerging and when discrimination based on appearance is rampant, this important book challenges us to think critically about how we see the human face.
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Author: Nelson Novick
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475914814
Size: 73.41 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Saving Face: A handy medically-based guide for separating fact from fancy in facial skin and hair care. Learn what you can do for yourself by discovering the keys to adequate skin protection, proper cleansing, appropriate moisturization and smart makeup selection. Also learn what your doctor can do for you, empowering you to make more informed choices, participate more fully in your own treatment and get more for your skin health care dollar.
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Author: Kandy Williams
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595220274
Size: 68.47 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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It's been 15 years since Abby Thompson was incarcerated for the unusual murder of her abusive husband, Rob. Since then, she's dedicated her life to building a business and raising her daughter, Sarah. But unlike most convicts, Abby belongs to one of the wealthiest families in Columbus. Besides occasional nightmares about her past, the only thing plaguing Abby is the fact that she's never been totally honest with Sarah, now a teenager, about her father's death. While she frets over how to finally tell Sarah the gruesome truth, Abby is also falling in love for the first time since Rob. To complicate matters further, the skeletons in the closet of Abby's past have grown restless, and burst forth in her life again. She is unexpectedly reunited with the sultry journalist who used Abby's tragedy to advance her career, and with her former mother-in-law, a woman who once wished Abby nothing but death and misery. Trouble brews for Abby after each of these encounters, but things grow worse with the murder of one of Abby's employees, as she becomes the primary suspect, and eventually discovers who the real killer is.
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Author: Neville Allen
Publisher: Booksmango
ISBN: 9786167270814
Size: 68.29 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Panarat Vipala treats her sweet and innocent daughter (Toy) to an unexpected 17th birthday present a one-way bus trip from up-country Isaan to Pattaya, where she is put to work as a bar girl. A few years later, when Australian holiday-maker Andrew McKinnon meets Toy in a Pattaya bar, he ignores his instincts and falls in love with the bar girl. Soon after, Andrew and Toy team up and the couple travel north to Toy's home province of Udon Thani, and what starts out as an idyllic romance quickly turns into a journey through a cultural minefield. McKinnon encounters age-old customs and traditions as he bids to be accepted into Toy's family circle. Meanwhile, the lovers are forced to tread a wary line between non-interference and rescue when McKinnon's best mate, Todd Walsh, falls for Bee, a beautiful Pattaya bank manager operating a cunning real estate scam. Against an emotional background of sex, greed, corruption and intrigue, a Bangkok psychic called Sukanya, and a natural disaster play roles in Andrew's and Toy's determination to hold onto true love and to save McKinnon's Aussie mate from financial disaster.
