Faye Linda Wachs

Metamorphosis

Who We Become after Facial Paralysis

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Imagine losing the ability to smile. After suffering permanent facial difference, Faye Linda Wachs finds a community of people reconstructing identity while coping with what she terms a social disability. By detailing personal accounts and interviews of those facing microaggressions and internal disruptions to communication, Metamorphosis explores the process of reconstructing the self.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 64g
• ISBN-13: 9781978805323
• ISBN-10: 1978805322
• Artikelnr.: 67673104

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