Bodies

Susie Orbach

RRP: £10.99

Publisher: PROFILE BOOKS

Publication Date : 26/01/2009

Paperback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

In the past decades, the search for the perfect body has affected every country on earth, with breast enhancements, eating problems, leg extensions, reshaping and nose jobs becoming increasingly common. Psychoanaylist Orbach examines how and why our bodies have become a measure of our worth, and asks how the situation came about. Orbach is the founder of the Woman's Therapy Centre of London.

Publisher's description:

In China, women are having their legs broken and extended by 5cms. In Iran, behind the Hijab there are 35,000 cosmetic nose reconstructions a year. In Brazil breasts and bottoms are reshaped along with the face so that women there can reflect western norms of beauty. This book states that our body becomes the measure of our worth.

ISBN: 9781846680199