Disobedient Bodies

Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty

Emma Dabiri

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English

Wellcome Collection
23 January 2024

Philosophy: aesthetics; Cultural studies; Social issues & processes; Feminism & feminist theory; Fashion & beauty industries

An unmissable, radical essay from Emma Dabiri, bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next

What part of your beautiful self were you taught to hate? We spend a lot of time trying to improve our 'defects', according to society's ideals of beauty. But these ideals that are often reductive, tyrannical and commercially entangled, imposed upon us by oppressive systems and further strengthened by our conditioned self-loathing.

This book encourages unruliness, exploring the ways in which we can rebel against and subvert the current system. Offering alternative ways of seeing beauty, drawing on other cultures, worldviews, times, and places, as well as looking beyond the capitalist model - to reconnect with our birth right and find the inherent joy in our disobedient bodies.

It accompanies The Cult of Beauty, a major exhibition at Wellcome Collection in autumn 2023.

By: Emma Dabiri
Imprint: Wellcome Collection
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 110mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 120g
ISBN: 9781800817920
ISBN 10: 1800817924
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 23 January 2024
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Emma Dabiri 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, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and author of the Sunday Times bestseller What White People Can Do Next and Don't Touch My Hair. 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' 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.

Reviews for Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty

'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 'A game-changing skewering of social media discourse with a historically grounded analysis of anti-racism, collectivism, neoliberalism, and post-colonialism' - Jason Okundaye