Cosmetic Surgery And The Televisual Makeover

Heyes, Cressida J.

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“…Thus, participants become a pleasurable spectacle (Moseley, 2000) not only for themselves but also for the audience. Heyes (2007) argued that a makeover show 'tells a sanitized fairy tale of identity becoming, in which the makeover enables the recipient to achieve longstanding personal goals presented as intrinsic to her own individual authenticity ' (p. 21).…”

Section: Makeover Shows: Going Beyond the 'Movement Of Women'mentioning

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How to organise your body 101: postfeminism and the (re)construction of the female body through How to Look Good Naked

Tsaousi

2016

Media, Culture & Society

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The aim of this article is to highlight the attention given by recent makeover shows, and specifically How to Look Good Naked, to the 'underneath' as a way of (re)organising the female body. I examine whether this 'turn' or change in media's direction is an appreciation of the real female body (an unmodified body) or whether this is a mere (re-)organisation of the body into a controllable base of overall appearance and a further embedding of Western conceptions of beauty and of the notion that the manipulation of appearance is essential to the construction of the feminine identity and to the measure of women's social worth. Informed by postfeminist discourse and critique, I analyse the British reality makeover television show How to Look Good Naked, discuss the extent to which it actually provides an alternative to prevailing cultural discourses around feminine beauty and scrutinise the impact that it seems to have on the identities of the women who participate. I analyse how the show, as the ultimate postfeminist show, inscribes gendered identities and practices, and I examine how postfeminism has created spaces for such shows to exist and affirm hegemonic gender constructions based on consumption practices.

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Section: Makeover Shows: Going Beyond the 'Movement Of Women'mentioning

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How to organise your body 101: postfeminism and the (re)construction of the female body through How to Look Good Naked

Tsaousi

2016

Media, Culture & Society

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“…Palmer 2003;Andrejevic 2004;Heyes 2007;Ouellette and Hay 2008;Lewis 2008). Among these scholars, Jack Z. Batich (2007,(6)(7) argues that reality TV is 'less about representing reality than intervening in it; less mediating and more involving'.…”

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“…On the other hand, viewers can distance themselves from the family, feel that their own family is actually relatively normal by comparison and thus feel fortified and confirmed in their own role as parents (Lewis 2008). In both cases, however, the specific values and behaviours initiated by the coach are normalised (Palmer 2004;Heyes 2007).…”

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“…In one way or another, these expectations can be said to contribute to the self-realisation of parents, as the shows also offer the viewers a range of techniques as to how to think and behave in order to become a 'good parent'. Viewers are, in various ways, invited to reflect about their own role as parents (Lunt 2008), and in what way their own thoughts and actions fit the particular normality, as defined by the nanny or coach (Palmer 2004;Heyes 2007;Morreale 2007).…”

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Family makeover: coaching, confession and parental responsibilisation

Dahlstedt

Fejes

2013

Pedagogy, Culture & Society

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Today, there is a widespread idea that parents need to learn how to carry out their roles as parents. Practices of parental learning operate throughout society. This article deals with one particular practice of parental learning, namely nanny TV, and the way in which ideal parents are constructed through such programmes. The point of departure is SOS family, a series broadcast on Swedish television in 2008. Proceeding from the theorising of governmentality developed in the wake of the work of Michel Foucault, we analyse the parental ideals conveyed in the series, as an example of the way parents are constituted as subjects in the 'advanced liberal society' of today. The ideal parent is a subject who, guided by the coach, is constantly endeavouring to achieve a makeover. The objective of this endeavour, however, is self-control, whereby the parents will in the end become their own coaches.

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“…Pitts, 2003), along with understandings of disability (Lupton & Seymour, 2000), anorexia (Bordo, 1993) and cosmetic surgery (Heyes, 2007) (Mauss, 1992: 454), exemplify this tradition. Mauss explores how mundane habitual acts such as walking, swimming or spitting are learned through a kind of cultural apprenticeship.…”

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Researching “experience”: Embodiment, methodology, process

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Theory & Psychology

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In this paper, we explore some of the tensions involved in the process of engaging with embodiment research. Although a significant volume of discursive work on 'the body' and its role in social relations now exists, there is little in the way of empirical research that moves the focus away from discourse alone to concentrate on other modalities, such as embodied feelings, sensations and engagements with the world. We begin by briefly reviewing the turn to embodiment across the social sciences and the manner in which this has been taken up in psychology. We then outline our attempts as a research collective to develop methodologies and research activities that can produce meaningful data on embodied experience. The outcomes of one of these tasks are then described in detail, along with reflections on the difficulties and limitations that emerged. Finally we attempt to conceptualise the challenge of researching embodiment by returning to the late nineteenth century psychology of John Dewey, which, we argue, neatly summarises some of the problems to be addressed by any researchers engaged in the 'turn to the body'.

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Cosmetic Surgery And The Televisual Makeover

Cited by 88 publications

References 6 publications

How to organise your body 101: postfeminism and the (re)construction of the female body through How to Look Good Naked

How to organise your body 101: postfeminism and the (re)construction of the female body through How to Look Good Naked

Family makeover: coaching, confession and parental responsibilisation

Researching “experience”: Embodiment, methodology, process

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