Faye Linda Wachs

Metamorphosis

Who We Become after Facial Paralysis

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Produktbeschreibung

Losing her smile to synkinesis after unresolved Bellâ s Palsy changed how Faye Linda Wachs was seen by others and her internal experience of self. In Metamorphosis, interviewing over 100 people with acquired facial difference challenged her presumptions about identity, disability, and lived experience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 229mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 316g
• ISBN-13: 9781978805316
• ISBN-10: 1978805314
• Artikelnr.: 67670404

Autorenporträt

FAYE LINDA WACHS is a professor of sociology at Cal Poly Pomona. She is the co-author, with Shari L. Dworkin, of the award-winning book Body Panic: Gender, Health and the Selling of Fitness.

Inhaltsangabe

1          When Life Gives You Lemons…. Interview Lots of Other People Also
With Lemons
2          Theorizing Change: Culture, Identity, and the Face
3          Microaggressions, Internalizations, and Contested Ideological
Terrain
4          It's My Face—Why That Matters
5          Disrupted Selves
6          Someone I Would Rather Be
7          Walking Away: The Challenge of Change
Acknowledgments
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Notes
References
Index