Consuming the Body
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-22533-6 (ISBN)
Woolley interprets the visual characteristics of different types of selfies, including #fitspiration, #thinspiration, #fatspiration, and #bodypositivity to understand how they relate to current body ideals. Healthism and culture bound illnesses such as hysteria and eating disorders are examined to demonstrate the impact of commodified body ideals on consumers’ bodies. An analysis of thinspiration images (photographs of emaciated bodies shared on pro-eating-disorder blogs and websites) suggests that the anorexic body represents the logical (and fatal) end point for the idealised body in consumer culture. Fat acceptance selfies suggest there is a fourth mode of address, empowering presence that has the potential to liberate consumers from the ‘trap of visibleness’ produced by the other three modes of address. In conclusion, the book identifies some creative methods for producing selfies that evade commoditisation and discipline.
Dawn Woolley is an artist and research fellow at Leeds Arts University examining consumer culture, social media, and gender. She completed an MA in Photography (2008) and PhD by project in Fine Art (2017) at the Royal College of Art. Her artwork is a feminist critique of consumer culture, encompassing photography, video, installation, and performance to draw attention issues of sexualisation, objectification, and idealisation. Recent solo exhibitions include; ‘Consumed: Stilled Lives’, Perth Centre for Photography, Australia (2021) and ‘Dance for Good & Exercise Your Rights’ in collaboration with Davin Watne, Public Space One gallery, Iowa City (2020).
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Sadistic Commands
2 The Fetishistic Gaze
3 Hystericized Insistent Presence
4 Self(ie) Discipline
5 The Hysteria Economy
6 The Clinical Fetishistic Gaze
7 Anti-Consumers and the Fetishistic Gaze
8 The Bulimic Economy
9 Empowering Presence
Conclusion
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 03.04.2024 |
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Zusatzinfo | 16 bw illus |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-22533-9 / 1350225339 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-22533-6 / 9781350225336 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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