The Biopolitics of Beauty : Cosmetic Citizenship and Affective Capital in Brazil /

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"The Biopolitics of Beauty examines how beauty became an aim of national health in Brazil. Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Brazilian hospitals, the author explains how plastic surgeons and patients navigate the public health system to transform beauty into a basic health right. T...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jarrín, Alvaro, 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Surgery, Plastic > Social aspects.
Public health > Social aspects.
Biopolitics.
Beauty, Personal > Social aspects.
Surgery, Plastic.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
MEDICAL > Surgery > General.
Chirurgie plastique.
Chirurgiens plasticiens > Aspect social > Bresil.
Sociologie de la sante > Bresil.
Biopolitique > Bresil.
Chirurgie plastique > Aspect social > Bresil.
Reconstructive Surgical Procedures
Surgery, Plastic
Beauty, Personal > Social aspects > Brazil.
Plastic surgeons > Social aspects > Brazil.
Public health > Social aspects > Brazil.
Biopolitics > Brazil.
Surgery, Plastic > Social aspects > Brazil.
Brazil.
Brazil
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"The Biopolitics of Beauty examines how beauty became an aim of national health in Brazil. Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Brazilian hospitals, the author explains how plastic surgeons and patients navigate the public health system to transform beauty into a basic health right. The book historically traces the national concern with beauty to Brazilian eugenics, which established beauty as an index of the nation's racial improvement. From here, Jarrín explains how plastic surgeons became the main proponents of a raciology of beauty, using it to gain the backing of the Brazilian state. Beauty can be understood as an immaterial form of value that Jarrín calls "affective capital," which maps onto and intensifies the social hierarchies of Brazilian society. Patients experience beauty as central to national belonging and to gendered aspirations of upward mobility, and they become entangled in biopolitical rationalities that complicate their ability to consent to the risks of surgery. The Biopolitics of Beauty not only examines the biopolical regime that made beauty a desirable national project, but also the subtle ways in which beauty is laden with affective value within everyday social practices, thus becoming the terrain upon which race, class, and gender hierarchies are reproduced and contested in Brazil."--Provided by publisher
Physical Description:1 online resource (236 pages).
ISBN:9780520967212

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