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Title: | Expressive Surfaces: The Case of the Designer Vagina |
Authors: | Jones, M |
Issue Date: | 1-Dec-2017 |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications on behalf of Theory, Culture & Society Ltd. |
Citation: | Jones, M. (2017) ‘Expressive Surfaces: The Case of the Designer Vagina’, Theory, Culture & Society, 34(7–8), pp. 29 - 50. doi: 10.1177/0263276417736592. |
Abstract: | In this paper I set out an argument that skins and screens, once distinctly different types of surface, are merging. I show how in contemporary highly mediatised worlds skins are required to be visually expressive whilst also noting a parallel movement whereby screens are becoming more affective. Using the ‘designer vagina’—specifically labiaplasty—as a case study I show how ideal bodies exist simultaneously as screen and as skin, as image and as affect. In turn, I argue that two-dimensional images and three-dimensional ‘real life’ bodies are blending in ways that parallel skin-screen mergers. |
URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13861 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276417736592 |
ISSN: | 0263-2764 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Social and Political Sciences Research Papers |
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