Disobedient Bodies

Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty

AvEmma Dabiri

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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An unmissable essay from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next'A magnificent text' KATY HESSEL'This is so sharp, and funny, and will be so generously liberating for so many - read it!' KATHERINE RUNDELL'A must-read' PSYCHOLOGIESFor too long, beauty has been entangled in the forces of patriarchy and capitalism: objectification, shame, control, competition and consumerism. We need to find a way to do beauty differently. This radical, deeply personal and empowering essay points to ways we can all embrace our unruly beauty and enjoy our magnificent, disobedient bodies.'This call to joyful disobedience is proof that Dabiri is one of our most important thinkers and writers ... Fresh, new and important' IRISH TIMES'Radical, incisive, thoughtful ... I can't recommend enough' VICKY SPRATT

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-10-05
Mått:110 x 178 x 18 mm
Vikt:125 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Wellcome Collection
Antal sidor:160
Förlag:Profile Books Ltd
ISBN:9781800817920

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Emma Dabiri is an Irish-Nigerian academic, author and broadcaster. She spent over a decade as a teaching fellow in the African department at SOAS. She is a final year Visual Sociology PhD researcher at Goldsmiths, and author of the Sunday Times bestseller What White People Can Do Next and Don't Touch My Hair. In 2023 she was appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She has presented several television and radio programmes including BBC Radio 4's critically-acclaimed documentaries Journeys into Afro-futurism and Britain's Lost Masterpieces, as well as BBC 2's Back in Time for Brixton and the Cannes Silver Lion award-winning Hair Power for Channel 4. She is a Contributing Editor at Elle and runs the Instagram account, Disobedient Bodies.

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I love the way Dabiri writes. She delves into such important, dense and globally sprawling topics with the utmost intelligence, both academic and emotional