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• W2593449355 abstract "Heather Laine Talley, Saving Face: Disfigurement and Politics of Appearance. New York: New York University Press, 2014. Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8147-8411-2, $24. 259 pp.In Saving Face: Disfigurement and Politics of Appearance (2015), Heather Laine Talley argues that ideological concepts of variation in US medical and non-medical culture, which she collectively terms the disfigurement imaginary, dramatically construct difference as a form of social death. Underpinning this exclusory attitude that reduces a person with anomalies to status of a living corpse, is, as Talley explains, an ableist culture, which dictates that vitality and social inclusion can only be restored and fixed through biomedical intervention. By contextualizing her discussion within a normalizing culture in which unremarkable face is cultural ideal, Talley goes on to argue how medical and social models of normalcy converge to create what she calls, facial work-a term Talley coins to refer to surgical techniques and procedures that are tied to social meanings and functions of human face. Bringing together her theoretical concepts of disfigurement imaginary and work, Talley then goes on to provide detailed and close analyses of four case studies that follow a gradation of surgical procedures. In brief, these four case studies involve cosmetic surgery for candidates on a US reality TV show called Extreme Makeover; feminization surgery (or FSS) for transgender women who want to pass as authentically female; corrective surgery and charity Operation Smile, who target children in developing world, who have cleft lip and palate; and finally reconstructive surgery in its most recent radical form, face transplant. In this series of case studies, Talley effectively demonstrates how social stigma surrounding disfigurement informs and pervades biomedicalization of difference in US culture. The outcome, as Talley explains, is blurring of boundaries between elective cosmetic surgery-ideologically viewed as an optimizing strategy to improve a person's look, and, in turn, their life chances of social success-and necessary reconstructive surgery, which restores functionality and vitality, while seeking to achieve added and equally sought after goal of normalizing anomalous face.Singularly and concisely then, Saving Face offers a compelling sociological study of disfigurement in US culture and is of relevance to disability scholarship. Sequentially, Saving Face comprises of an introduction, seven chapters, a postscript, and appendix. Beginning with introduction and chapter 1, Talley starts by discussing how we as individuals collude in disfigurement imaginary and dire consequences that this collusion has for those who live with anomalies. From this premise, Talley proposes importance of an in-depth sociological study of face, arguing that uniquely it possesses biological and social functions, which, when scrutinized within society's cultural norms, are informed by an ideology of defect and repair that is determined by a western of human face. Building on her sociology of face thesis, Talley, in chapter 2, introduces her theoretical tools, disfigurement imaginary and work, setting them to work on her four chosen case studies in chapters 3 to 6.For example, in chapter 3, Talley begins with Extreme Makeover, popular US reality television show that recruits candidates from general public through a discourse of disfigurement, by associating their supposed undesirable appearance with personal tragedy. In a formulaic narrative of defect and repair, emotional, social, and economic recovery is granted to candidates through salvation of aesthetic intervention (61). As Talley points out, although end results are unremarkable, candidates often testify to how their lives have been transformed and saved from certain social death. …" @default.
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• W2593449355 title "Saving Face: Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance by Heather Laine Talley (review)" @default.
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