Search results for "Self-Empowerment"
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Reflecting on Female Beauty: Cosmetic Surgery and (Dis)Empowerment
2018
This project aims to unwrap some of the complexities related to female beauty and the body. It reflects on the second wave radical feminist view that beautifying the female body serves to attract male approval via the male gaze, both of which are deeply entrenched in patriarchal power. This perspective positions cosmetic surgery as a disempowering act for women. In riposte, we turn to third wave liberal feminist ideas to engage with the narratives of ten participants who tell of their personal experiences of, and motivations for, undergoing a cosmetic intervention. We undertake an in-depth exploration of these lifeworld experiences and the interplay of subjectivity and intersubjectivity in …
Elementi di psicologia di comunità. Progettare, attuare e partecipare il cambiamento sociale
2012
La terza edizione di un manuale i cui approfondimenti tematici sono esemplari del carattere d’interdisciplinarietà che la psicologia di comunità è riuscita a conservare dal suo nascere a oggi, pur essendo chiaro che essa è una disciplina a sé, con riconosciuta compattezza scientifica tra i suoi esponenti. Approfondimenti che possono considerarsi degli “affondi” che, verticalmente, rendono la disciplina ricca di linguaggi diversi, di modelli tra loro ancora in cerca di dialogo, di strumenti il cui utilizzo è inerente alla sintesi “ricerca-azione” e mai solo all’una o all’altra. Il format del volume è “pensato per pensarsi” psicologi di comunità e operatori sociali (operatori di strada, proge…
Beauty and the Cosmetic Secret
2018
Cosmetic surgery is often linked to the perception that women who resort to cosmetic interventions to alter their physical appearance are vain, superficial, and narcissistic. Few investigations have acknowledged and explored the individual’s personal motivations and experiences of her action and choice with regards to aesthetic surgery. By focusing on subjective experience, alternative insights can be gained on the cosmetic procedure(s) and on how their reshaped body influences an individual’s lifeworld experience. The article explores the perceived benefits and consequences of reshaping, enhancing, and/or reducing a perceived flaw or shortcoming of the body. From this exploration the focus…
Travail et self-empowerment chez les sujets handicapés
2005
Tiempos felices: Transformaciones en las tecnologías psicológicas de gobierno de la subjetividad
2020
This paper traces some inflections in the psy disciplines? discourses and technologies for the government of subjectivity during the last decades. It is focused on exploring different mechanisms through which psychological disciplines ?their discourses, techniques and practices? penetrate social life and contribute to establishing subject models consistent with transformations in the political and economic rationalities of late capitalism. Drawing on previous research in the field of gender politics and happiness discourses in the pop psychological culture, I track a line with three moments: i) the production of psychological individuality and identity normalization; ii) the proliferation o…