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Perfect Me - Beauty as an Ethical Ideal (Hardcover)
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Perfect Me - Beauty as an Ethical Ideal (Hardcover)
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How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today's
world The demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in
today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being
perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to
which we judge ourselves good or bad, a success or a failure.
Perfect Me explores the changing nature of the beauty ideal,
showing how it is more dominant, more demanding, and more global
than ever before. Heather Widdows argues that our perception of the
self is changing. More and more, we locate the self in the
body--not just our actual, flawed bodies but our transforming and
imagined ones. As this happens, we further embrace the beauty
ideal. Nobody is firm enough, thin enough, smooth enough, or buff
enough-not without significant effort and cosmetic intervention.
And as more demanding practices become the norm, more will be
required of us, and the beauty ideal will be harder and harder to
resist. If you have ever felt the urge to "make the best of
yourself" or worried that you were "letting yourself go," this book
explains why. Perfect Me examines how the beauty ideal has come to
define how we see ourselves and others and how we structure our
daily practices-and how it enthralls us with promises of the good
life that are dubious at best. Perfect Me demonstrates that we must
first recognize the ethical nature of the beauty ideal if we are
ever to address its harms.
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