Saving Face: Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance

by Heather Laine Talley

Book Overview

Winner, Body and Embodiment Award presented by the American Sociological Association

Imagine yourself without a face--the task
seems impossible. The face is a core feature of our physical identity. Our face
is how others identify us and how we think of our 'self'. Yet, human faces are
also functionally essential as mechanisms for communication and as a means of
eating, breathing, and seeing. For these reasons, facial disfigurement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814784119
• ISBN13: 9780814784112
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"