Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance
by
Heather Laine Talley
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
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...