Perfect Me
Perfect Me How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today's worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Perfect Me explores the…
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Perfect Me
How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today's worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Perfect Me explores the changing nature of the beauty ideal, showing how it is more dominant, demanding, and global than ever before. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to which we judge ourselves a success or failure.
Nobody is firm enough, thin enough, smooth enough, or buff enough-not without significant effort and cosmetic intervention. Arguing that our perception of the self is changing, Heather Widdows shows that more and more, we locate the self in the body. To understand these rising demands, we need to recognize their ethical aspect and seek out new communal