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"In Jeffreys' latest book, she questions why the beauty industry is expanding, and why liberal feminists should see a virtue in women having the power to choose practices that a few years back were condemned as oppressive. The critique of beauty practices... has today all but disappeared, making way for procedures that 'break skin and spill blood'. ... Jeffreys tends to see things coming before they happen. She was the one who warned, in the early 1980s, that pornography and sadomasochistic sexual practices would invade the lesbian community. They did. She predicted a global trend to call for the legalisation of prostitution. There was. ... There is little, if any, feminist critique of men's cross-dressing, but in Beauty And Misogyny Jeffreys provides a unique analysis. ... Jeffreys offers no comfort zone for her readers. Unlike some feminist theorists, she refuses to couch her arguments in inaccessible, academic language, or to accept that feminism has achieved its aims. For Jeffreys, the word "complicated" does not exist. The reason for women's oppression is horribly simple: men want their power and, for that reason, they will keep women in a state of subordination to maintain it." - Julie Bindel, in The Guardian, 02 July 2005 "It is refreshing to have the feminist critique of beauty practices expanded to encompass the new cosmetic surgeries, piercing, and tatooing, as well as arguing against the liberal feminist and postmodern interpretations that are accepting of them. ... Taken as a whole, the book is shocking, as it includes many extreme practices of self-mutilation and cosmetic surgery that were new to me. It is also intellectually stimulating because it takes a strong position that condemns all beauty practices. ... It is also persuasive, as it shows how women are the losers. ... Although each woman may think she is freely choosing what she does to her own body, the pressure from male individuals and cultural institutions is powerful and hard to resist. This is a decidedly feminist interpretation that shows once more how the personal is political. ... This book serves as a reminder to some of us that contemporary beauty practices are by women, but not for women. They benefit the sex industry, the plastic surgeons, and the fashion and cosmetic industries. Jeffreys's analysis will add new perspective for third-wave feminists and postfeminist women. It deserves to be widely read. Beauty & Misogyny belongs in women's studies and public health classes and on the shelves of academics, clinicians, and parents of daughters. It would benefit any woman who was considering plastic surgery or buying a new tube of lipstick." - Michele Hoffnung, in PsycCRITIQUES, June 2006
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Should western beauty practices, ranging from lipstick to labiaplasty, be included within the United Nations understandings of harmful traditional/cultural practices? By examining the role of common beauty practices in damaging the health of women, creating sexual difference, and enforcing female deference, this book argues that they should. In the 1970s feminists criticized pervasive beauty regimes such as dieting and depilation, but some 'new' feminists argue that beauty practices are no longer oppressive now that women can 'choose' them. However, in the last two decades the brutality of western beauty practices seems to have become much more severe, requiring the breaking of skin, spilling of blood and rearrangement or amputation of body parts. Beauty and Misogyny seeks to make sense of why beauty practices are not only just as persistent, but in many ways more extreme. It examines the pervasive use of makeup, the misogyny of fashion and high-heeled shoes, and looks at the role of pornography in the creation of increasingly popular beauty practices such as breast implants, genital waxing and surgical alteration of the labia. It looks at the cosmetic surgery and body piercing/cutting industries as being forms of self-mutilation by proxy, in which the surgeons and piercers serve as proxies to harm women's bodies, and concludes by considering how a culture of resistance to these practices can be created. This essential work will appeal to students and teachers of feminist psychology, gender studies, cultural studies, and feminist sociology at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and to anyone with an interest in feminism, women and beauty, and women's health.
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A formidable challenge to neoliberal feminists
5. Januar 2007
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"Beauty and Misogyny" by Sheila Jeffreys is a powerful work by a prominent second wave feminist on the severe psychological and physical harm that our sexist society inflicts upon women. Ms. Jeffreys persuasively argues that western women express their relative status of powerlessness and subordination through beauty practices in an effort to conform to the expectations of their male oppressors. Through her astute scholarship and analysis, the author identifies ways in which we might begin to create an equalitarian world where women are freed of the burdens of male-imposed behaviors.
Ms. Jeffreys' thesis poses a formidable challenge to neoliberal feminists who have suggested that women exercise agency or 'choice' with respect to their appearance. By rooting her analysis in capitalism's tendency to divide economic activity into the public (masculine) and private (feminine) spheres, Ms. Jeffreys contends that beauty practices serve to reinforce the social hierarchy by heightening gender identification. As the neoliberal economic system has increasingly allowed the marketplace to function as the arbitrator of morality, these practices have become more extreme. In fact, the author submits that the United Nations' definition of harmful cultural practices (which in the past had been used to condemn the developing nations of the world) might now be more appropriately read for its description of how western democracies are currently mistreating women through an imposition of needlessly destructive beauty practices.
Interestingly, Ms. Jeffreys traces many widely-accepted beauty practices to their origins in prostitution, including the wearing of high heels, makeup and surgical enhancements. Ms. Jeffreys describes some of the negative health consequences that have ensued as a result of these and other practices that have been made popular by the mainstreaming of pornography, including tattooing and labiaplasty. Ms. Jeffreys discusses how the beauty/industrial complex adroitly uses the media to heighten women's feelings of insecurity for profit. The significant expenditures of time and money that women make in an effort to beautify themselves could be better spent on improving their real lives, the author suggests, and she encourages her readers to eschew such practices as a political acts of resistances. She also calls for better government regulation of the medical, adult entertainment and advertising industries to help limit the harm caused by destructive procedures and harmful messages, especially those that target the young.
Written with insight, passion and intelligence by an author of the highest integrity, I recommend this timely book to everyone interested in a strong feminist perspective on the topic of beauty and society. However, it is probably best for adults to provide readers under 18 years with guidance, given the mature themes of the book.
Ms. Jeffreys' thesis poses a formidable challenge to neoliberal feminists who have suggested that women exercise agency or 'choice' with respect to their appearance. By rooting her analysis in capitalism's tendency to divide economic activity into the public (masculine) and private (feminine) spheres, Ms. Jeffreys contends that beauty practices serve to reinforce the social hierarchy by heightening gender identification. As the neoliberal economic system has increasingly allowed the marketplace to function as the arbitrator of morality, these practices have become more extreme. In fact, the author submits that the United Nations' definition of harmful cultural practices (which in the past had been used to condemn the developing nations of the world) might now be more appropriately read for its description of how western democracies are currently mistreating women through an imposition of needlessly destructive beauty practices.
Interestingly, Ms. Jeffreys traces many widely-accepted beauty practices to their origins in prostitution, including the wearing of high heels, makeup and surgical enhancements. Ms. Jeffreys describes some of the negative health consequences that have ensued as a result of these and other practices that have been made popular by the mainstreaming of pornography, including tattooing and labiaplasty. Ms. Jeffreys discusses how the beauty/industrial complex adroitly uses the media to heighten women's feelings of insecurity for profit. The significant expenditures of time and money that women make in an effort to beautify themselves could be better spent on improving their real lives, the author suggests, and she encourages her readers to eschew such practices as a political acts of resistances. She also calls for better government regulation of the medical, adult entertainment and advertising industries to help limit the harm caused by destructive procedures and harmful messages, especially those that target the young.
Written with insight, passion and intelligence by an author of the highest integrity, I recommend this timely book to everyone interested in a strong feminist perspective on the topic of beauty and society. However, it is probably best for adults to provide readers under 18 years with guidance, given the mature themes of the book.
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Strong medicine
19. September 2010
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This book is a very important, well-argued wakeup call to those among us who have bought into the fantasy of the "power of consumer choice". Buy it, read it, give it to your friends. We all need to be conscious of the lies we perpetrate in our damaging "beauty" practices and the inarguable role these practices play in reinforcing women's oppression.
2 von 5 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Useful but sometimes torturous read
24. Juni 2008
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If you are looking for a book that presents a feminist critique of U.S. beauty standards, I would suggest reading The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf instead. It's much more digestible and it's a classic that many have read. I'd only suggest this book after reading The Beauty Myth if the social construction of beauty is something that very very strongly interests you and you have a background in feminist theory/sociology/philosophy.
My main issue with this book is that the first 25% of the book is a complete nightmare to wade through for anyone who doesn't already have a strong background in feminist theory or philosophy. Seriously, I have a bit of a headache. I'd say it's more written for grad students and professors in Women's Studies than for the general population or general college students. It does get more digestible after that, when she discusses applications of her theories to specific examples.
She tries to set her up as being radically different in philosophy from Wolf, but in my opinion the basic claims are the same: beauty norms subordinate women and give men power, women often don't recognize this, men and capitalist system have a stake in keeping women dissatisfied, it's not necessarily a "choice" to wear make-up/be thin/get cosmetic surgery when there is so much pressure to have a certain look and adhere to expectations for your gender. The only part that seemed completely new and fresh to me was chapter 3 (critiquing "transfeminity").
My main issue with this book is that the first 25% of the book is a complete nightmare to wade through for anyone who doesn't already have a strong background in feminist theory or philosophy. Seriously, I have a bit of a headache. I'd say it's more written for grad students and professors in Women's Studies than for the general population or general college students. It does get more digestible after that, when she discusses applications of her theories to specific examples.
She tries to set her up as being radically different in philosophy from Wolf, but in my opinion the basic claims are the same: beauty norms subordinate women and give men power, women often don't recognize this, men and capitalist system have a stake in keeping women dissatisfied, it's not necessarily a "choice" to wear make-up/be thin/get cosmetic surgery when there is so much pressure to have a certain look and adhere to expectations for your gender. The only part that seemed completely new and fresh to me was chapter 3 (critiquing "transfeminity").
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