Disobedient Bodies Emma Dabiri

Name: Disobedient Bodies By Emma Dabiri
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Disobedient Bodies by Emma Dabiri

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Summary

An act of rebellion and a reclamation of beauty

Disobedient Bodies Summary

Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty by Emma Dabiri

An unmissable, radical essay from Emma Dabiri, bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next 'Powerful ... Disobedient Bodies explores the way in which we spend effort and money rectifying our flaws ... to encourage an alternative approach to beauty' The i, Best New Books to Read in October 2023 For too long, beauty has been entangled in the forces of patriarchy and capitalism: objectification, shame, control, competition and consumerism. We need to find a way to do beauty differently. This radical, deeply personal and empowering essay points to ways we can all embrace our unruly beauty and enjoy our magnificent, disobedient bodies. It accompanies The Cult of Beauty, a major exhibition at Wellcome Collection, opening in October 2023.

Disobedient Bodies Reviews

Powerful ... Disobedient Bodies explores the way in which we spend effort and money rectifying our flaws ... to encourage an alternative approach to beauty -- Best New Books to Read in October 2023 * The i *
Game-changing -- Jason Okundaye * British Vogue *
Emma is once-in-a-generation clever -- Caitlin Moran
Praise for What White People Can Do Next -- :
Essential ... accessible and yet so full of scholarship. Witty, insightful, a must-read -- Owen Jones
Impactful . . . a manifesto for meaningful and lasting change. And trust us, once you've picked it up and started reading, you won't want to put it down * Cosmopolitan *
Praise for Don't Touch My Hair -- :
Groundbreaking ... I would urge everyone to read it * Guardian *
Groundbreaking ... scintillating -- Bernardine Evaristo * TLS *
Fascinating, educational, personal, humble and engaging. I urge you all to read it! -- Marian Keyes

About Emma Dabiri

Emma Dabiri is an Irish-Nigerian academic, author and broadcaster. She spent over a decade as a teaching fellow in the African department at SOAS. She is a final year Visual Sociology PhD researcher at Goldsmiths, and author of the Sunday Times bestseller What White People Can Do Next and Don't Touch My Hair. In 2023 she was appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She has presented several television and radio programmes including BBC Radio 4's critically-acclaimed documentaries Journeys into Afro-futurism and Britain's Lost Masterpieces, as well as BBC 2's Back in Time for Brixton and the Cannes Silver Lion award-winning Hair Power for Channel 4. She is a Contributing Editor at Elle and runs the Instagram account, Disobedient Bodies.

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Sku

NGR9781800817920

ISBN 13

9781800817920

ISBN 10

1800817924

Title

Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty by Emma Dabiri

Author

Emma Dabiri

Condition

New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Profile Books Ltd

Year published

2023-10-05

Number of pages

160

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