Aestheticized bodies

Title: Aestheticized bodies
Creator: Coffey, Julia
Relation: Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies p. 218-227
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315745664
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2017
Description: This chapter explores the gendered dimensions of aesthetic body work practices. Currently, the aesthetic body is a site of intense focus and concern. The aesthetic body is both the target of a range of growing commercial industries, as well as a key focus of academic and theoretical study. Drawing on data from a qualitative study of young people's body work practices, this chapter explores the aesthetic body work practices of muscle-building and cosmetic surgery. The chapter mobilizes concepts of affect, assemblage and becoming to understand the aesthetically motivated practices of muscle-building and cosmetic surgery. This approach contributes to developing the use of post-human concepts in empirical research. The chapter concludes with a discussion of possible implications for the use of such concepts for physical cultural studies.
Subject: physical culture studies; gender; aesthetic body work; aesthetic body; commercial industries; muscle-building; cosmetic surgery
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1397062
Identifier: uon:34180
Identifier: ISBN:9781317596011
Language: eng

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