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The Biopolitics of Beauty

Release on 2017-09-052017-09-05 by Alvaro Jarrín
The Biopolitics of Beauty

Author: Alvaro Jarrín

Publisher: Univ of California Press

ISBN: 9780520293885

Category: Social Science

Page: 272

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The Biopolitics of Beauty examines how beauty became an aim of national health in Brazil. Using ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Brazilian hospitals, the author shows how plastic surgeons and patients navigate the public health system to transform beauty into a basic health right. The book historically traces the national concern with beauty to Brazilian eugenics, which established beauty as an index of the nation’s racial improvement. From here, Jarrín explains how plastic surgeons became the main proponents of a raciology of beauty, using it to gain the backing of the Brazilian state. Beauty can be understood as an immaterial form of value that Jarrín calls “affective capital,” which maps onto and intensifies the social hierarchies of Brazilian society. Patients experience beauty as central to national belonging and to gendered aspirations of upward mobility, and they become entangled in biopolitical rationalities that complicate their ability to consent to the risks of surgery. The Biopolitics of Beauty explores not only the biopolitical regime that made beauty a desirable national project, but also the subtle ways in which beauty is laden with affective value within everyday social practices—thus becoming the terrain upon which race, class, and gender hierarchies are reproduced and contested in Brazil.
Social Science
The Biopolitics of Beauty
Language: en
Pages: 272

The Biopolitics of Beauty

Authors: Alvaro Jarrín
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-05 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

The Biopolitics of Beauty examines how beauty became an aim of national health in Brazil. Using ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Brazilian hospitals, the author shows how plastic surgeons and patients navigate the public health system to transform beauty into a basic health right. The book historically traces the national
The Biopolitics of Beauty
Language: en
Pages: 248

The Biopolitics of Beauty

Authors: Alvaro Jarrin
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

"The Biopolitics of Beauty examines how beauty became an aim of national health in Brazil. Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Brazilian hospitals, the author explains how plastic surgeons and patients navigate the public health system to transform beauty into a basic health right. The book historically traces the
The Biopolitics of Lifestyle
Language: en
Pages: 156

The Biopolitics of Lifestyle

Authors: Christopher Mayes
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-12-22 - Publisher: Routledge

A growing sense of urgency over obesity at the national and international level has led to a proliferation of medical and non-medical interventions into the daily lives of individuals and populations. This work focuses on the biopolitical use of lifestyle to govern individual choice and secure population health from the
The Biopolitics of Mixing
Language: en
Pages: 198

The Biopolitics of Mixing

Authors: Dr Jinthana Haritaworn
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-01 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Debates over who belongs in Europe and who doesn't increasingly speak the language of mixing, but how are the figures commonly described as 'mixed' actually embodied? The Biopolitics of Mixing invites us to reckon with the spectres of pathologization past and present, placing the celebration of mixing beside moral panics
The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer
Language: en
Pages: 397

The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer

Authors: Maren Klawiter
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

For nearly forty years, feminists and patient activists have argued that medicine is a deeply individualizing and depoliticizing institution. According to this view, medical practices are incidental to people’s transformation from patients to patient activists. The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer turns this understanding upside down. Maren Klawiter analyzes the evolution

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