The Biopolitics of Beauty : Cosmetic Citizenship and Affective Capital in Brazil

This anthology provides exciting, innovative research focused on the construction of adolescent girls' sexuality in the media. The volume includes a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives from the humanities and the social sciences, addressing how girls and others respond to, work with, and even resist prevailing media representations of girls' sexualities and how they use contemporary media as a form of sexual expression. The authors consider a wide array of sexual attitudes, behaviors, and expressions not commonly seen in the sexualities literature, including the voices of other girls whose voices are often ignored, particularly racial/ethnic minority and indigenous girls, sexual minorities, and girls from non-U.S. settings. The use of ethnographic data, in conjunction with media analysis techniques, provides a unique approach to the media studies genre, which tends to highlight an analysis of media content, as opposed to the ways in which media is used in everyday life. -- Provided by publisher.;Historical and contemporary media -- Media use and self-representation -- Media campaigns and literacy projects.;Girls' sexualities and the media: the power of the media / Yasmina Katsulis, Vera Lopez, Kate Harper, and Georganne Scheiner Gillis -- The girls of Carvel: adolescent desire in Andy hardy films / Georganne Scheiner Gillis -- "Sensible safety rules": class, race, and girls' sexual vulnerability in the U.S. print media, 1950-1970 / Jennifer Helgren -- Snogging, stereotypes, and subversion: girls' sexuality in the Harry Potter series / Kate Harper -- The pleasures of danger and the dangers of pleasure: the inversion of gender relations in the Twilight series / Suzan Walters and Michael Kimmel -- "She's all that": girl sexuality and teen film / Catherine Driscoll -- Wrecked and redeemed: religio-political pedagogy and MTV's 16 and pregnant / Amanda Rossie -- Just say me? (Mis)representing female adolescent sexual agency on The secret life of the American teenager / Elena Frank -- Producing girl citizens as agents of health: an analysis of HPV media campaigns in the United States / Kellie Burns and Cristyn Davies -- "Hyperfeminine" subcultures: rethinking gender subjectivity and the discourse of sexuality among adolescent girls in contemporary Japan / Isaac Gagné -- Favela models: sexual virtue and hopeful narratives of beauty in Brazil / Alvara Jarrin -- "Chongas" in the media: the ethno-sexual politics of Latina girls' hypervisibility / Jillian Hernandez -- Heteroflexibility: female performance and pleasure / Jennifer Apple -- "Hey media, back off and get off my body": SPARK is taking sexy back / Deborah L. Tolman, Lyn Mikel Brown, and Christin P. Bowman -- From media propaganda to de-stigmatizing sex: exploring a teen magazine by, for, and about girls / Linda Charmaraman and Brittany Low -- "We're all straight here": using girls' groups and critical media literacy to explore identity with middle school girls / Amy Rutstein-Riley, Jenn Walker, Alice Diamond, Bonnie Bryant, and Marie LaFlemme. Girls' sexualities and the media: the power of the media / Yasmina Katsulis, Vera Lopez, Kate Harper, and Georganne Scheiner Gillis -- The girls of Carvel: adolescent desire in Andy hardy films / Georganne Scheiner Gillis -- "Sensible safety rules": class, race, and girls' sexual vulnerability in the U.S. print media, 1950-1970 / Jennifer Helgren -- Snogging, stereotypes, and subversion: girls' sexuality in the Harry Potter series / Kate Harper -- The pleasures of danger and the dangers of pleasure: the inversion of gender relations in the Twilight series / Suzan Walters and Michael Kimmel -- "She's all that": girl sexuality and teen film / Catherine Driscoll -- Wrecked and redeemed: religio-political pedagogy and MTV's 16 and pregnant / Amanda Rossie -- Just say me? (Mis)representing female adolescent sexual agency on The secret life of the American teenager / Elena Frank -- Producing girl citizens as agents of health: an analysis of HPV media campaigns in the United States / Kellie Burns and Cristyn Davies -- "Hyperfeminine" subcultures: rethinking gender subjectivity and the discourse of sexuality among adolescent girls in contemporary Japan / Isaac Gagné -- Favela models: sexual virtue and hopeful narratives of beauty in Brazil / Alvara Jarrin -- "Chongas" in the media: the ethno-sexual politics of Latina girls' hypervisibility / Jillian Hernandez -- Heteroflexibility: female performance and pleasure / Jennifer Apple -- "Hey media, back off and get off my body": SPARK is taking sexy back / Deborah L. Tolman, Lyn Mikel Brown, and Christin P. Bowman -- From media propaganda to de-stigmatizing sex: exploring a teen magazine by, for, and about girls / Linda Charmaraman and Brittany Low -- "We're all straight here": using girls' groups and critical media literacy to explore identity with middle school girls / Amy Rutstein-Riley, Jenn Walker, Alice Diamond, Bonnie Bryant, and Marie LaFlemme. Historical and contemporary media -- Media use and self-representation -- Media campaigns and literacy projects. The Biopolitics Of Beauty Examines How Beauty Became An Aim Of National Health In Brazil. Based On Ethnographic Fieldwork Carried Out In Brazilian Hospitals, The Author Explains How Plastic Surgeons And Patients Navigate The Public Health System To Transform Beauty Into A Basic Health Right. The Book Historically Traces The National Concern With Beauty To Brazilian Eugenics, Which Established Beauty As An Index Of The Nation's Racial Improvement. From Here, Jarrín Explains How Plastic Surgeons Became The Main Proponents Of A Raciology Of Beauty, Using It To Gain The Backing Of The Brazilian State. Beauty Can Be Understood As An Immaterial Form Of Value That Jarrín Calls Affective Capital, Which Maps Onto And Intensifies The Social Hierarchies Of Brazilian Society. Patients Experience Beauty As Central To National Belonging And To Gendered Aspirations Of Upward Mobility, And They Become Entangled In Biopolitical Rationalities That Complicate Their Ability To Consent To The Risks Of Surgery. The Biopolitics Of Beauty Not Only Examines The Biopolical Regime That Made Beauty A Desirable National Project, But Also The Subtle Ways In Which Beauty Is Laden With Affective Value Within Everyday Social Practices, Thus Becoming The Terrain Upon Which Race, Class, And Gender Hierarchies Are Reproduced And Contested In Brazil.--provided By Publisher. The Eugenesis Of Beauty -- Plastic Governmentality -- The Circulation Of Beauty -- Hope, Affect, Mobility -- The Raciology Of Beauty -- Cosmetic Citizens. Alvaro Jarrín. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. The Biopolitics of Beauty examines how beauty became an aim of national health in Brazil. Using ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Brazilian hospitals, the author shows how plastic surgeons and patients navigate the public health system to transform beauty into a basic health right. The book historically traces the national concern with beauty to Brazilian eugenics, which established beauty as an index of the nation’s racial improvement. From here, Jarrín explains how plastic surgeons became the main proponents of a raciology of beauty, using it to gain the backing of the Brazilian state. Beauty can be understood as an immaterial form of value that Jarrín calls “affective capital,” which maps onto and intensifies the social hierarchies of Brazilian society. Patients experience beauty as central to national belonging and to gendered aspirations of upward mobility, and they become entangled in biopolitical rationalities that complicate their ability to consent to the risks of surgery. The Biopolitics of Beauty explores not only the biopolitical regime that made beauty a desirable national project, but also the subtle ways in which beauty is laden with affective value within everyday social practices—thus becoming the terrain upon which race, class, and gender hierarchies are reproduced and contested in Brazil. Résumé en 4ème de couverture : "The Biopolitics of Beauty examines how beauty became an aim of national health in Brazil. Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Brazilian hospitals, the author explains how plastic surgeons and patients navigate the public health system to transform beauty into a basic health right. The book historically traces the national concern with beauty to Brazilian eugenics, which established beauty as an index of the nation's racial improvement. From here, Jarrín explains how plastic surgeons became the main proponents of a raciology of beauty, using it to gain the backing of the Brazilian state. Beauty can be understood as an immaterial form of value that Jarrín calls "affective capital," which maps onto and intensifies the social hierarchies of Brazilian society. Patients experience beauty as central to national belonging and to gendered aspirations of upward mobility, and they become entangled in biopolitical rationalities that complicate their ability to consent to the risks of surgery. The Biopolitics of Beauty not only explores the biopolical regime that made beauty a desirable national project, but also the subtle ways in which beauty is laden with affective value within everyday social practices, thus becoming the terrain upon which race, class, and gender hierarchies are reproduced and contested in Brazil." The Biopolitics of Beauty examines how beauty became an aim of national health in Brazil. Using ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Brazilian hospitals, the author shows how plastic surgeons and patients navigate the public health system to transform beauty into a basic health right. The book historically traces the national concern with beauty to Brazilian eugenics, which established beauty as an index of the nation's racial improvement. From here, Jarrín explains how plastic surgeons became the main proponents of a raciology of beauty, using it to gain the backing of the Brazilian state. Beauty can be understood as an immaterial form of value that Jarrín calls "affective capital," which maps onto and intensifies the social hierarchies of Brazilian society. Patients experience beauty as central to national belonging and to gendered aspirations of upward mobility, and they become entangled in biopolitical rationalities that complicate their ability to consent to the risks of surgery. The Biopolitics of Beauty explores not only the biopolitical regime that made beauty a desirable national project, but also the subtle ways in which beauty is laden with affective value within everyday social practices—thus becoming the terrain upon which race, class, and gender hierarchies are reproduced and contested in Brazil. The Biopolitics of Beauty examines how beauty became anaim of national health in Brazil. Using ethnographic fieldworkcarried out in Brazilian hospitals, the author shows how plasticsurgeons and patients navigate the public health system totransform beauty into a basic health right. The book historicallytraces the national concern with beauty to Brazilian eugenics,which established beauty as an index of the nation's racialimprovement. From here, Jarrín explains how plastic surgeons becamethe main proponents of a raciology of beauty, using it to gain thebacking of the Brazilian state. Beauty can be understood as animmaterial form of value that Jarrín calls "affective capital,"which maps onto and intensifies the social hierarchies of Braziliansociety. Patients experience beauty as central to nationalbelonging and to gendered aspirations of upward mobility, and theybecome entangled in biopolitical rationalities that complicatetheir ability to consent to the risks of surgery. TheBiopolitics of Beauty explores not only the biopoliticalregime that made beauty a desirable national project, but also thesubtle ways in which beauty is laden with affective value withineveryday social practices-thus becoming the terrain upon whichrace, class, and gender hierarchies are reproduced and contested inBrazil Using ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Brazilian hospitals, this work shows how plastic surgeons and patients navigate the public health system to transform beauty into a basic health right. The text historically traces the national concern with beauty to Brazilian eugenics, which established beauty as an index of the nation's racial improvement