Department of Philosophy

Royal Institute of Philosophy Seminar Wednesday 1 February 2017

Location
Machicado Suite, Willoughby Hall
Date(s)
Wednesday 1st February 2017 (15:00-17:00)
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Professor Heather Widdows (University of Birmingham)

Beauty, Choice and Exploitation

This paper will explore some of the discourses around beauty practices, interventions and products (including those involved in ‘routine maintenance’, such as continual body hair removal and what are normally considered more extreme practices, such as cosmetic surgery). It will consider how the engagement in such practices can be considered a choice given the relatively narrow and demanding, and increasingly global, beauty ideal. It will explore how, within such a limited framework, we can conceptualise engagement in such practices using arguments about choice and exploitation.

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