FAYE LINDA WACHS is a professor of sociology at Cal Poly Pomona. She is the co-author, with Shari L. Dworkin, of the award-winning book Body Panic: Gender, Health and the Selling of Fitness.

“Metamorphosis is a groundbreaking, nuanced study of the experience of facial paralysis (FP) and synkinesis. This is the first academic book on synkinesis or facial paralysis, and Wachs is the perfect person to write it.” - Kathleen Bogart (director of the Disability and Social Interaction Lab at Oregon State University) “Metamorphosis is an important contribution to sociology of the body, critical disability, and sociology of emotion scholarship, as well as being of interest and use to anyone interested in understanding more about the nuts and bolts of face-to-face communication; Wachs is a gifted writer.” - Travers (author of The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution)

• 1          When Life Gives You Lemons…. Interview Lots of Other People Also With Lemons2          Theorizing Change: Culture, Identity, and the Face3          Microaggressions, Internalizations, and Contested Ideological Terrain4          It's My Face-Why That Matters5          Disrupted Selves6          Someone I Would Rather Be7          Walking Away: The Challenge of ChangeAcknowledgmentsAppendix AAppendix BAppendix CNotesReferencesIndex

FAYE LINDA WACHS is a professor of sociology at Cal Poly Pomona. She is the co-author, with Shari L. Dworkin, of the award-winning book Body Panic: Gender, Health and the Selling of Fitness.

“Metamorphosis is a groundbreaking, nuanced study of the experience of facial paralysis (FP) and synkinesis. This is the first academic book on synkinesis or facial paralysis, and Wachs is the perfect person to write it.” - Kathleen Bogart (director of the Disability and Social Interaction Lab at Oregon State University) “Metamorphosis is an important contribution to sociology of the body, critical disability, and sociology of emotion scholarship, as well as being of interest and use to anyone interested in understanding more about the nuts and bolts of face-to-face communication; Wachs is a gifted writer.” - Travers (author of The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution)

• 1          When Life Gives You Lemons…. Interview Lots of Other People Also With Lemons2          Theorizing Change: Culture, Identity, and the Face3          Microaggressions, Internalizations, and Contested Ideological Terrain4          It's My Face-Why That Matters5          Disrupted Selves6          Someone I Would Rather Be7          Walking Away: The Challenge of ChangeAcknowledgmentsAppendix AAppendix BAppendix CNotesReferencesIndex

FAYE LINDA WACHS is a professor of sociology at Cal Poly Pomona. She is the co-author, with Shari L. Dworkin, of the award-winning book Body Panic: Gender, Health and the Selling of Fitness.

“Metamorphosis is a groundbreaking, nuanced study of the experience of facial paralysis (FP) and synkinesis. This is the first academic book on synkinesis or facial paralysis, and Wachs is the perfect person to write it.” - Kathleen Bogart (director of the Disability and Social Interaction Lab at Oregon State University) “Metamorphosis is an important contribution to sociology of the body, critical disability, and sociology of emotion scholarship, as well as being of interest and use to anyone interested in understanding more about the nuts and bolts of face-to-face communication; Wachs is a gifted writer.” - Travers (author of The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution)

• 1          When Life Gives You Lemons…. Interview Lots of Other People Also With Lemons2          Theorizing Change: Culture, Identity, and the Face3          Microaggressions, Internalizations, and Contested Ideological Terrain4          It's My Face-Why That Matters5          Disrupted Selves6          Someone I Would Rather Be7          Walking Away: The Challenge of ChangeAcknowledgmentsAppendix AAppendix BAppendix CNotesReferencesIndex