My Body Is Not a Brand
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- ISBN8235960268
- EAN9798235960268
- Date de parution06/05/2026
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- Infos supplémentairesepub
- ÉditeurIoakim Ioakim
Résumé
What happens when the body becomes a public project?My Body Is Not a Brand is a sharp, timely work of cultural criticism about beauty, wellness, influencer culture, self measurement, and the exhausting pressure to make the modern self look visibly controlled. From filtered faces and skincare routines to gym selfies, clean eating, Botox, Ozempic conversations, supplement culture, sleep tracking, body positivity, anti ageing anxiety, and the soft commercial language of self care, Fiona Ryan examines how ordinary human life has been transformed into something to polish, measure, display, and sell.
This book looks at the modern beauty and wellness economy with clear eyes. It asks why care so often begins to feel like correction. Why rest has become another aesthetic. Why food is treated as moral evidence. Why ageing naturally can feel like a form of refusal. Why the female body is still read, judged, and commented on before the woman herself is fully heard. Inside this book, readers will find an intelligent examination of: The beauty industry and the invention of new flaws Influencer culture and the rise of the algorithmic face Wellness routines as public performances of discipline Food guilt, clean eating, and appetite under surveillance Gym culture and the body as proof of effort Anti ageing pressure, Botox, grey hair, and the fear of time Self care as both genuine need and profitable market Class, race, money, and the price of looking well Fitness trackers, data, and the dashboard self The quiet refusal to turn the body into a brand This is not a book against beauty, care, style, pleasure, health, or the desire to feel good.
It is a book against the culture that turns every body into evidence, every routine into content, every insecurity into a product, and every private self into something that must be optimised for approval. My Body Is Not a Brand is for readers who have ever looked at a photograph and felt smaller, opened an app and felt judged, bought a product in the hope of becoming more acceptable, or wondered why simply existing in a human body has begun to feel like so much work.
Beautiful, angry, thoughtful, and deeply relevant, this book names the pressure many people feel but struggle to explain.
This book looks at the modern beauty and wellness economy with clear eyes. It asks why care so often begins to feel like correction. Why rest has become another aesthetic. Why food is treated as moral evidence. Why ageing naturally can feel like a form of refusal. Why the female body is still read, judged, and commented on before the woman herself is fully heard. Inside this book, readers will find an intelligent examination of: The beauty industry and the invention of new flaws Influencer culture and the rise of the algorithmic face Wellness routines as public performances of discipline Food guilt, clean eating, and appetite under surveillance Gym culture and the body as proof of effort Anti ageing pressure, Botox, grey hair, and the fear of time Self care as both genuine need and profitable market Class, race, money, and the price of looking well Fitness trackers, data, and the dashboard self The quiet refusal to turn the body into a brand This is not a book against beauty, care, style, pleasure, health, or the desire to feel good.
It is a book against the culture that turns every body into evidence, every routine into content, every insecurity into a product, and every private self into something that must be optimised for approval. My Body Is Not a Brand is for readers who have ever looked at a photograph and felt smaller, opened an app and felt judged, bought a product in the hope of becoming more acceptable, or wondered why simply existing in a human body has begun to feel like so much work.
Beautiful, angry, thoughtful, and deeply relevant, this book names the pressure many people feel but struggle to explain.